Table 1 Summarized research results of Empowerment Scale
From: Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Client Empowerment Scale in chronic patients
Author(s) | Measure | Methods | Subjects | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mikky | 44-Item Client Empowerment Scale | Principal component analysis | 318 clients with various chronic health conditions | The 44 items were rescored on a five-point scale |
Rogers et al. | 28-Item Empowerment Scale | Principal components factor analysis | 271 members of six self-help Programs | Five-factors: self-efficacy, power, community activism; righteous anger; and optimism and control over the future |
Faulkner | 100-Item Patient Empowerment/Disempowerment Scale | Frequency score | 102 elderly patients | Offered as a means of identifying hospital environments which facilitate independence |
Anderson et al. | 28-Item Diabetes-Patient Empowerment Scale | Principal component analysis diabetes | 375 and 229 diabetes patients | Three-factor solution accounts for 56 % of the total variance |
Bulsara et al. | 28-Item Patient Empowerment Scale | Rasch model analysis | 100 cancer patients | Fitted the Rasch model with the exception of two items |
Hansson and Bjorkman | 28-Item Empowerment Scale | Confirmatory factor analysis | 176 subjects with mental illness | Good construct validity; two-factors: self-esteem and activism and community and power |
Kettunen et al. | 43-Item Empowering-Speech Scale | Confirmatory factor analysis | 127 counseling situations | Second-order two-factor solution explained 59 % of variation |