BACKGROUND Although there are several different general diabetes self-efficacy scales, there is a need to develop a self-efficacy scale that providers can use to assess patient's self-efficacy regarding medication use. The purpose of this study was to: 1) develop a new diabetes medication self-efficacy scale and 2) examine how diabetes medication self-efficacy is associated with patient-reporte...

BACKGROUND with increasing prevalence of diabetes in older people, it is important to understand factors that affect their outcomes. The Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel) project is a demonstration project to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of telemedicine with diverse, medically underserved, older diabetes patients. Subjects were randomised to telemedicin...

s conclusions: “Having better provider-patient communication, having social support, and having higher self-efficacy was associated with performing diabetes self-care behaviors; and these behaviors were directly linked to glycemic control. So longitudinal studies are needed to explore the effect of self-efficacy, social support and PPC on changes in diabetes self-care behaviors and glycemic con...

since, the nutritional behavior is a complicated process in which various factors play the role, this study aimed at specifying the effective factors in nutritional behavior of diabetic patients based on health promotion model. this paper reviews the published articles from 2000 to the beginning of 2012, using the various data banks and search engines such as pubmed, proquest, scopus,elsevier, ...

Introduction: Knowledge and self-efficacy are some of the factors in providing pre-hospital stroke life support so that it is expected to reduce mortality morbidity due Indonesia. The purpose this study was determine effect education on knowledge families with risk patients.Methods:The design used a pre-experiment (one-group pre-posttest design). sample comes from who have patients working area...

INTRODUCTION Biologically male and female have similar diabetes prevalence. Gender differences in the social structure bring differences in life style modifications and all other self care behaviors in type 2 diabetes. The primary purpose of this study was to assess the gender difference in care of type 2 diabetes in Western region, Nepal. METHODS Hundred men and hundred women respondents par...

Background: Integrating spiritual principles with practical principles may be a strategy to assist persons to understand how to make positive health decisions. Faith-based programs can allow individuals to acquire the diabetes knowledge necessary to manage their disease and practice the necessary lifestyle changes within the context of their culture and community. Therefore, the purpose of this...