Table 2.

Criteria for assigning group membership in typologies

	Little understanding of follow-up care	Detailed understanding of follow-up care
Limited or low patient activation	Group 1	Group 4
	Understanding	Understanding
	Have no frame of reference for understanding follow-up	Understand what to expect as part of follow-up
	Have few skills and limited motivation to seek information and/or build skills to manage their follow-up	Have access to skills and resources but little motivation to seek information and/or build skills to manage their follow-up
	Activation	Activation
	Limited skills and tools to function as decision-making agent	Limited skills and tools to function as decision-making agent
	Top-down relationship with care providers related to follow-up (rely heavily on health care team to tell them what to do)	Top-down relationship with care providers related to follow-up (rely heavily on health care team to tell them what to do)
	Do not believe it is their responsibility to manage their care	Do not believe it is their responsibility to manage their care
	Expect that things will work out as they should	Expect that things will work out as they should
High patient activation	Group 2	Group 3
	Understanding	Understanding
	Have no frame of reference for understanding follow-up	Understand what to expect as part of follow-up
	Have moderate/minimal knowledge and skills related to managing their follow-up	Have access to skills and resources and high motivation to seek information and/or build skills to manage their follow-up
	Activation	Activation
	Have goals and a plan to improve their health and manage their follow-up	Have goals and a plan to improve their health and manage their follow-up
	Top-down relationship with care providers related to follow-up (rely heavily on doctors to tell them what to do)	Bidirectional, shared decision-making relationship with care providers related to follow-up
	Understand they should seek care from experts so that their health care providers can tell them what to do	Motivated to seek information and build skills and confidence necessary to manage their follow-up
	Initially motivated to seek information and build skills and confidence necessary to manage their follow-up	Believe it is their responsibility to participate in and play an active role in the management of their care
	Can and/or have given up control for monitoring their follow-up to their health care team	Constantly check doctor’s opinion and advice on follow-up and other behavioral health care-related issues