About this Research Topic
Person-centered healthcare is characterized by prioritizing human experience and placing authenticity, compassion, dignity, and humanistic caring principles at the center of healthcare practice. It recognizes a global movement that goes beyond the concept of including service users in decision-making but extends this to all persons involved in care delivery. Although past decades have seen significant research efforts in person-centered practice, advancements are being made every day in generating new knowledge. This Research Topic aims to highlight leading research being undertaken that focuses on advancing knowledge in the theory and practice of person-centered healthcare.
Person-centered healthcare practice is vital to achieving a truly holistic system where individual values and beliefs are respected and where healthful cultures can flourish. Despite this acknowledgment (and a vital movement in healthcare research), person-centeredness in practice is still misunderstood and often not implemented effectively. This is a major gap. In this Research Topic, we invite emerging research that aims to tackle this through various methodological and contextual lenses.
We open this invite to researchers around the globe who wish to publish their research relating to the current state and future directions in person-centered healthcare practice.
We invite literature reviews, empirical research, and commentaries deriving from the following five domain areas of the Person-centered Practice Framework (PCPF):
1. Healthful cultures – (i) How are healthful cultures defined in literature, (ii) What are the factors contributing to achieving healthful cultures, (iii) How do healthful cultures integrate with commonly reported healthcare outcomes, etc;
2. Person-centered processes – (i) What are person-centered processes, (ii) how do these interact with each other, (iii) how do these interact with other constructs of the PCPF;
3. Prerequisites for person-centered practice – (i) What are the important attributes or skills of the practitioner for person-centered practice, (ii) how do they interact with one another, (iii) how are they linked to other constructs of the PCPF;
4. The person-centered practice environment – (i) What are the key features of a practice environment that are conducive to person-centered practice, (ii) what are the areas that organizations can focus on to develop their practice environment;
5. Macro context – (i) What are the key socio-political factors that affect person-centered practice, (ii) What role do policymakers play in promoting person-centered practice, (iii) cultural differences in person-centered practice, (iv) translations and cultural adaptation of measurement tools.
Person-centered healthcare practice is vital to achieving a truly holistic system where individual values and beliefs are respected and where healthful cultures can flourish. Despite this acknowledgment (and a vital movement in healthcare research), person-centeredness in practice is still misunderstood and often not implemented effectively. This is a major gap. In this Research Topic, we invite emerging research that aims to tackle this through various methodological and contextual lenses.
We open this invite to researchers around the globe who wish to publish their research relating to the current state and future directions in person-centered healthcare practice.
We invite literature reviews, empirical research, and commentaries deriving from the following five domain areas of the Person-centered Practice Framework (PCPF):
1. Healthful cultures – (i) How are healthful cultures defined in literature, (ii) What are the factors contributing to achieving healthful cultures, (iii) How do healthful cultures integrate with commonly reported healthcare outcomes, etc;
2. Person-centered processes – (i) What are person-centered processes, (ii) how do these interact with each other, (iii) how do these interact with other constructs of the PCPF;
3. Prerequisites for person-centered practice – (i) What are the important attributes or skills of the practitioner for person-centered practice, (ii) how do they interact with one another, (iii) how are they linked to other constructs of the PCPF;
4. The person-centered practice environment – (i) What are the key features of a practice environment that are conducive to person-centered practice, (ii) what are the areas that organizations can focus on to develop their practice environment;
5. Macro context – (i) What are the key socio-political factors that affect person-centered practice, (ii) What role do policymakers play in promoting person-centered practice, (iii) cultural differences in person-centered practice, (iv) translations and cultural adaptation of measurement tools.
Keywords: Person-centered Practice Framework, PCPF, Person-centered care
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