Progressive Testing of Health Self-efficacy and Literacy for Personalized Engagement

Abstract

Patient engagement can be enhanced through continuous monitoring of patient' health knowledge and self-efficacy levels across different co-morbid conditions and key aspects in health improvement and recovery. While selfreported test batteries and computerized instruments have been designed to perform evaluation of patient literacy and self-efficacy, they are not practical to be used in scenarios where concurrent tests are needed to understand the change over time. In this paper we propose an adaptive system that can progressively compose the most pertinent test for each user based on the provisional estimates of a patient's latent trait being measured. This requires modeling not only the latent health literacy and self-efficacy levels of patients and the difficulty and discriminating factors of test items, but also the temporal dependency among concurrent tests. The goal is to account for changes over the course of patient engagement history as the basis for devising personalized patient plans.