Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Understanding patients' preferences is important to patient engagement in the health care system. My research is aligned with the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR)'s strategic goal #2, which is e-health and other innovations for patient-centered care. I will apply the problem-solving and decision-making scale, e-health literacy scale, and trust in the physician scale to understand glaucoma and primary care patients' preferred roles in treatment decision-making, self-reported e-health literacy, and trust in the physician. Sharing the results of my work at the University of Oxford can help me bridge connections between scholarly work in Canada and the United Kingdom. The theme of the conference is patient centered care and I plan to present the findings of my thesis dissertation on patient engagement and e-health literacy at this conference. The findings of this research are important in creating patient engagement initiatives that take into account patients' preferences and level of e-health literacy.