PROM Detail

The Health Care Empowerment Questionnaire
  • Basic Information
  • Detailed Information
  • Domains
  • Psychometrics

Basic Information

Abbreviated name
HCEQ
Full name
The Health Care Empowerment Questionnaire
Items ?
The number of questions in the survey
10
Short description
This tool measures the extent of indiviudal empowerment in relation to personal health care and services. It was created by identifying individual empowerment and indicators from the literature, devising related items and then testing them with a sample of older people.
PCCC or QoL? ?
This compendium contains patient-reported measures that are either designed to specifically measure aspects of Person Centred Co-Ordinated Care (P3C), or alternatively tools that are designed to measure some aspect of Quality of Life (QoL) or Health Related Quality of Life (hrQoL). All the measures in this compendium have been broadly categorised into one of those two concepts.
Person Centred Coordinated Care
Main Domains Measured ?
This is the key domains that the measure is targeting.
Empowerment
Type of measure ?
The measures in this compendium can take a variety of forms. Generally, they will be either Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) or Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM). However, we have also included a few measures that are completed by proxy-individual (PROXY), which are useful in instances where the respondent cannot answer directly (e.g. dementia or end of life). Sometimes, these measures can even be a composite of these types, and target both experiences and outcomes – we have labelled these measures “PROEMs”.
PREM
Respondent ?
The person that fills in the questionnaire - e.g. patient, Health Care Professional, or proxy (normally a carer or family member)
Patients

Detailed Information

Year developed ?
The year in which the measure was first published.
2006
Country developed in ?
The main country[s] in which the measure was first developed.
Canada
Website link ?
A link to the developer of the measure, if they have a website.
Target condition ?
The measures can be either generic or disease specific (e.g. Diabetes, Heart Failure)
Generic
Main context tested in ?
The main context in which the measure has been developed and used (E.g. Hopital, General Practice etc).
PRISMA research program
Main countries used in ?
The main countries in which the measure has been developed and used.
Canada
Target age ?
e.g. Adults, Children, Elderly
Older people
Main uses of measure ?
The context in which the measure is most often used – e.g. clinical trials; national surveys.
Measure the degree of
Used in UK? ?
Whether the instrument has been tested and validated within a UK healthcare context.
No
Impact ?
A crude indication of the impact of the measure on academia. This is the number of times the original publication has been cited on PubMed, divided/normalised to the years since publication.
0.8
Language
English

Domains

Domain description
Empowerment
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
9
3
3
3
6
Empowerment/activation
Carer involvement
Generic care planning
Shared decision making
Information sharing

Psychometrics

Brief description ?
A brief description of the initially reported psychometric properties of the measure.
The multidimensional nature of the concept of individual empowerment was confirmed by 3 factors that explain more than 68% of the total variance. The Cronhbach's alpha coefficent of internal consistency was .93 and the intraclass coefficents (test retest) was .70.