Patient empowerment and engagement with a health infomediary

摘要

Objectives: This study explores the role of three types of empowerment, psychological, discretionary, and leadership, on sustained engagement with a health infomediary. Discretionary empowerment refers to authority, psychological empowerment is the manifestation of inherent motivation and response, and leadership empowerment is the trait of knowledge based control and governance for a group in an infomediary. Sustained engagement is critical for patients to derive long-term benefits from an infomediary. Relationships between the three types of patient empowerments on sustained patient engagement is conceptualized and operationalized with testable hypotheses.