Self-efficacy is seen as a concept employed at individual level, linked to personal levels of performance, and which has a clearly psychological component, while empowerment has psychological, social and political elements and is used to describe personal variables, care practices and the characteristics of the system.
La autoeficacia se considera un concepto individual, vinculado al rendimiento personal, y con un componente claramente psicológico, mientras que empoderamiento tiene componentes psicológicos, sociales y políticos y se utiliza para describir tanto variables personales, prácticas asistenciales como características del sistema.