Nabil Yehia, Eldaw Anwar, El-Shourbagy Dalia, Ibrahim Dima, Alturkistani Hanan, Alshahrani Mohammed, Farghaly Mohamed, AlMadhi Sawsan, Mansour Romy
Medical Affairs, Gilead Sciences Inc., Dubai, ARE.
Infectious Disease/Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, SAU.
Cureus. 2024 Mar 24;16(3):e56804. doi: 10.7759/cureus.56804. eCollection 2024 Mar.
The significance of patient engagement (PE) is widely acknowledged as a crucial element in fostering positive health outcomes, elevating care quality, and streamlining healthcare systems. Despite its recognized advantages, the level of patient engagement in Arab nations remains suboptimal.
A high-level assembly was convened in Dubai with 11 distinguished patient advocates from diverse Arab countries. Their collective aim was to dissect the obstacles hindering patient engagement in the Arab world and propose pragmatic strategies to surmount them. First, a series of five open-ended, comprehensive questions were posed and thoroughly deliberated upon. Second, the barriers to patient engagement within the experts' respective communities were debated. A qualitative thematic analysis was conducted and two reports were generated by two independent researchers from the original meeting recordings.
This paper highlights the importance of patient engagement in advancing healthcare and categorizes barriers to patient engagement as patient-related, provider-related, or system/government-related. The experts identified the primary gaps in patient engagement and proposed strategies to promote it, with a primary focus on motivating both patients and providers toward shared decision-making.
This paper amalgamates the insights and recommendations distilled from the expert gathering, juxtaposing them within the broader context of existing literature on patient engagement. Offering a comprehensive viewpoint, this article delves into the challenges and opportunities intrinsic to bolstering patient engagement in the Arab world. Moreover, it spotlights invaluable tools often overlooked within Arab countries. The practical insights provided here can serve as a roadmap for administrators and decision-makers, providing guidance to enhance patient engagement on both a national and institutional scale.
患者参与（PE）的重要性被广泛认可为促进积极健康结果、提升护理质量和优化医疗系统的关键要素。尽管其优势已得到公认，但阿拉伯国家的患者参与水平仍不尽人意。
在迪拜召开了一次高级别会议，有来自不同阿拉伯国家的11位杰出患者倡导者参加。他们的共同目标是剖析阻碍阿拉伯世界患者参与的障碍，并提出切实可行的策略来克服这些障碍。首先，提出了一系列五个开放式的综合性问题并进行了深入讨论。其次，讨论了专家各自所在社区内患者参与的障碍。进行了定性主题分析，两位独立研究人员根据原始会议记录生成了两份报告。
本文强调了患者参与对推进医疗保健的重要性，并将患者参与的障碍分为与患者相关、与提供者相关或与系统/政府相关。专家们确定了患者参与方面的主要差距，并提出了促进患者参与的策略，主要侧重于激励患者和提供者共同参与决策。
本文融合了从专家会议中提炼出的见解和建议，并将其置于关于患者参与的现有文献的更广泛背景中。本文提供了一个全面的观点，深入探讨了在阿拉伯世界加强患者参与所固有的挑战和机遇。此外，它还突出了阿拉伯国家经常被忽视的宝贵工具。这里提供的实用见解可为管理人员和决策者提供路线图，为在国家和机构层面提高患者参与度提供指导。
