Patient empowerment in risk management: a mixed-method study to explore mental health professionals’ perspective

摘要

BackgroundIn the last years, patients’ empowerment has been increasingly recognized as a crucial dimension of patient-centered healthcare and patient safety. Nevertheless, little work has been done so far in the field of patient safety to investigate strategies for empowering psychiatric patients. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify, by using focus groups, whether and how psychiatric patients’ empowerment can improve risk management according to the perspective of healthcare providers (HPs).