OBJECTIVE This paper examines how the term "empowerment" has been used in relation to the care and education of patients with chronic conditions over the past decade. METHODS Fifty-five articles were analysed, using a qualitative method of thematic analysis. RESULTS Empowerment is more often defined according to some of its anticipated outcomes rather than to its very nature. However, becau...

This essay suggests that two strands of social action which have hitherto developed separately - legal empowerment and social accountability - ought to learn from one another. Legal empowerment efforts grow out of the tradition of legal aid for the poor; they assist citizens in seeking remedies to breaches of rights. Social accountability interventions employ information and participation to de...

Experiences over the past few decades suggest a shortcoming of top-down approaches to development. Since the 1980s, the new watchwords have been “participatory” or “community-led” development (Mansuri and Rao 2004; Uphoff 1996) and, more recently, “empowerment.” The World Bank’s Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Sourcebook defines empowerment as “the expansion of assets and capabilities of p...

Despite decades of extensive research by academicians and rigorous exercises of management practitioners, “Empowerment” construction is incomplete and still facing skepticism. Many leading service companies have dropped the thought of empowerment from their management practices list and some abandoned the idea completely, others still successfully working on this approach into a balanced way of...

As they relate to user-generated content on the internet, civic engagement and psychological empowerment have received significant interest in recent years. While past studies have examined online civic participation and political empowerment, the way in which civic engagement offline and content generation online are related to psychological empowerment has not been thoroughly explored. The pu...

Women’s empowerment is often described as a key factor in the well-being of women and their households, and as such, has been quantified, measured and described in a variety of ways. It is a dynamic process that cannot be observed directly, but through the use of proxies and indicators can be approximated. Empowerment is very context specific, and in a predominantly Islamic society with high le...

OBJECTIVES While health literacy has been widely considered key to patient empowerment, an alternative approach separates both concepts and distinguishes between different types of patients according to their levels of health literacy and empowerment. These types are deemed to vary in their health-related actions and outcomes. In this study, we examine the relationship between health literacy a...

BACKGROUND The empowerment embedded in the health area is defined as a process that can facilitate control over the determinants of health of individuals and population as a way to improve health. The aim of this study was to verify the association between individual and collective empowerment with sociodemographic conditions, lifestyle, health conditions and quality of life. METHOD A cross-s...

Background Critical care nurses providing care for adults at the end of life may encounter moral distress when they cannot do what they believe is ethically correct. Psychological empowerment can decrease moral distress among critical care nurses. Objectives To describe the relationships between moral distress, psychological empowerment, and demographics in critical care nurses caring for patie...

BACKGROUND Empowerment programs have been shown to contribute to increased empowerment of individuals and build capacity within the community or workplace. To-date, the impact of empowerment programs has yet to be quantified in the published literature in this field. This study assessed the Indigenous-developed Family Wellbeing (FWB) program as an empowerment intervention for a child safety wor...