eHealth for Patient Engagement: A Systematic Review

eHealth interventions are recognized to have a tremendous potential to promote patient engagement. To date, the majority of studies examine the efficacy of eHealth in enhancing clinical outcomes without focusing on patient engagement in its specificity. This paper aimed at reviewing findings from th...

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Main Authors:	Barello, Serena, Triberti, Stefano, Graffigna, Guendalina, Libreri, Chiara, Serino, Silvia, Hibbard, Judith, Riva, Giuseppe
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4705444/

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spelling	pubmed-47054442016-01-15 eHealth for Patient Engagement: A Systematic Review Barello, Serena Triberti, Stefano Graffigna, Guendalina Libreri, Chiara Serino, Silvia Hibbard, Judith Riva, Giuseppe Psychology eHealth interventions are recognized to have a tremendous potential to promote patient engagement. To date, the majority of studies examine the efficacy of eHealth in enhancing clinical outcomes without focusing on patient engagement in its specificity. This paper aimed at reviewing findings from the literature about the use of eHealth in engaging patients in their own care process. We undertook a comprehensive literature search within the peer-reviewed international literature. Eleven studies met the inclusion criteria. eHealth interventions reviewed were mainly devoted to foster only partial dimensions of patient engagement (i.e., alternatively cognitive, emotional or behavioral domains related to healthcare management), thus failing to consider the complexity of such an experience. This also led to a great heterogeneity of technologies, assessed variables and achieved outcomes. This systematic review underlines the need for a more holistic view of patient needs to actually engage them in eHealth interventions and obtaining positive outcomes. In this sense, patient engagement constitute a new frontiers for healthcare models where eHealth could maximize its potentialities. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4705444/ /pubmed/26779108 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02013 Text en Copyright © 2016 Barello, Triberti, Graffigna, Libreri, Serino, Hibbard and Riva. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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author	Barello, Serena Triberti, Stefano Graffigna, Guendalina Libreri, Chiara Serino, Silvia Hibbard, Judith Riva, Giuseppe
spellingShingle	Barello, Serena Triberti, Stefano Graffigna, Guendalina Libreri, Chiara Serino, Silvia Hibbard, Judith Riva, Giuseppe eHealth for Patient Engagement: A Systematic Review
author_facet	Barello, Serena Triberti, Stefano Graffigna, Guendalina Libreri, Chiara Serino, Silvia Hibbard, Judith Riva, Giuseppe
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title	eHealth for Patient Engagement: A Systematic Review
title_short	eHealth for Patient Engagement: A Systematic Review
title_full	eHealth for Patient Engagement: A Systematic Review
title_fullStr	eHealth for Patient Engagement: A Systematic Review
title_full_unstemmed	eHealth for Patient Engagement: A Systematic Review
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description	eHealth interventions are recognized to have a tremendous potential to promote patient engagement. To date, the majority of studies examine the efficacy of eHealth in enhancing clinical outcomes without focusing on patient engagement in its specificity. This paper aimed at reviewing findings from the literature about the use of eHealth in engaging patients in their own care process. We undertook a comprehensive literature search within the peer-reviewed international literature. Eleven studies met the inclusion criteria. eHealth interventions reviewed were mainly devoted to foster only partial dimensions of patient engagement (i.e., alternatively cognitive, emotional or behavioral domains related to healthcare management), thus failing to consider the complexity of such an experience. This also led to a great heterogeneity of technologies, assessed variables and achieved outcomes. This systematic review underlines the need for a more holistic view of patient needs to actually engage them in eHealth interventions and obtaining positive outcomes. In this sense, patient engagement constitute a new frontiers for healthcare models where eHealth could maximize its potentialities.
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate	2016
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4705444/
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eHealth for Patient Engagement: A Systematic Review

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