Une éducation salutogénique basée sur les capabilités des patients: une nouvelle composante de l'éducation thérapeutique

Abstract

The aim of therapeutic patient education (TPE) is to give patients the knowledge and competencies they feel they need, in terms of self-care and life skills, to cope with their chronic disease. Independent of TPE, patients engaged as social actors in the health system have achieved a salutogenic state characterized by a sense of coherence. Based on that assumption, patients' salutogenesis should be supported via education that enables them to develop the ability to influence both the health system and their immediate environment - especially healthcare services. A new avenue could be created for TPE by incorporating salutogenic education sessions aimed at impacting iatrogenic vulnerabilities, defined as situations that compromise patients' (physical and psychosocial) safety. Patients would learn to use their own healthcare experiences and those of their peers to identify change strategies contributing to their greater safety and, in so doing, to the hospitals' mission as health promoters. New entities could be created: UTEEPs, or Unités Transversales d'Éducation et de l'Engagement du Patient (Crosscutting Patient Education and Engagement Units).