Facilitating empowerment in employees with chronic disease: qualitative analysis of the process of change.

Introduction: In the field of healthcare, empowering patients who have a chronic disease is defined as increasing their knowledge and skills, in order to enable them to define their treatment goals and take personal responsibility for their medical treatment. Our goal was to explore the nature of empowerment for employees who have a chronic disease and who experience work-related problems.

Methods: We used an explorative qualitative approach to document, from a professional perspective, the experiences of patients who participated in an empowerment training program.