Patient participation: the impact of diagnosis and individual characteristics

Mary E. Schramm, Tilottama G. Chowdhury, Myra Odenwaelder and Eunice A. Lisk

The Service Industries Journal, 2023, vol. 43, issue 13-14, 989-1009

Abstract: Despite the interest in encouraging patients to participate in their care, knowledge of the relationship between patients’ characteristics and the extent to which they want to participate in their care is limited. Failure to consider preferences may negate the purported benefits of participation. Drawing on Self-Efficacy Theory, our multi-method study addresses this gap in the literature by studying patient preference for a prescribed versus a patient designed wellness program, as a function of individual self-efficacy and health skills, for diabetes and cancer patients. Using an experimental approach, we contribute to Self-Efficacy Theory by finding that disease seriousness impacts the expected interaction between self-efficacy and health skills in wellness program choice. The expected interaction held for diabetes patients but not for cancer patients. Differences between diabetes and cancer patients may reflect the relative psychological distress and the heightened importance of effective treatment that were revealed in patient interviews.

Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/02642069.2021.1902993 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:servic:v:43:y:2023:i:13-14:p:989-1009

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/FSIJ20

DOI: 10.1080/02642069.2021.1902993

Access Statistics for this article

The Service Industries Journal is currently edited by Eileen Bridges, Professor Domingo Ribeiro, Ronald Goldsmith, Barry Howcroft and Youjae Yi

More articles in The Service Industries Journal from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().