Empowerment is seen as an important thinking and working framework for social work. Ideally, it is possible to measure the empowering effects of social work. However, various factors complicate measuring empowerment, making it a difficult exercise. In past decades many instruments for measuring empowerment have been developed and there are many variations in the way these instruments have been developed. The aim of this review is to provide a comprehensive overview of the available instruments, scales or questionnaires that intent to measure the empowerment of users of social work in different contexts of social work, by means of a scoping review. A total of 2,711 studies were screened, resulting in 49 unique instruments for measuring empowerment in contexts related to social work. The results show that the found instruments are almost exclusively Patient-Reported Outcome Scales. Whilst many instruments measure individual empowerment, only a few measure community empowerment. The results also show that there are many variations in which instruments operationalise empowerment. This overview provides social work organisations and its researchers an overview of measuring tools necessary to measure the effects of their efforts, allowing them to build on what is available.

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衡量社会工作赋权的工具：范围审查

赋权被视为社会工作的重要思考和工作框架。理想情况下，可以衡量社会工作的授权效果。然而，各种因素使衡量赋权变得复杂，使其成为一项困难的练习。在过去的几十年中，已经开发了许多衡量赋权的工具，并且这些工具的开发方式有很多变化。本次审查的目的是全面概述旨在通过范围审查来衡量不同社会工作背景下社会工作用户赋权的可用工具、量表或问卷。总共筛选了 2,711 项研究，产生了 49 种独特的工具来衡量与社会工作相关的环境中的赋权。结果表明，发现的工具几乎完全是患者报告的结果量表。虽然许多工具衡量个人赋权，但只有少数衡量社区赋权。结果还表明，工具在赋权操作方面存在许多变化。本概述为社会工作组织及其研究人员提供了衡量其努力效果所必需的衡量工具的概述，使他们能够在可用的基础上进行构建。