BACKGROUND Prevalence of osteoporosis (OP) is high among Chinese adults with diabetes. Assessment of OP and fracture risk as well as patient education should be included as part of the management of diabetes. PURPOSE The purpose of this pilot study was to test the effectiveness of an educational self-efficacy intervention on knowledge about OP, dietary calcium intake, the importance of physic...

AIMS First, to examine whether autonomy-supportive and self-efficacy-enhancing individual lifestyle counselling was associated with improved maintenance of heart-protective diets and smoking cessation compared with group-based counselling. Second, to investigate to what extent reported motivation was associated with maintenance of dietary changes. METHODS A randomized controlled trial and lon...

background: perceived self‑efficacy is a strong predictor for behavior. considering the importance of health‑promoting self‑care behaviors in increasing quality of life in the elderly, this study was aimed at defining the effect of nurse home visits on self‑care self‑efficacy of the elderly in rural areas. materials and methods: this is a pre and post quasi‑experimental study conducted on 33 ol...

Children of low socio-economic position (SEP) consume poorer diets than those of high SEP; however, there is limited understanding of why socio-economic gradients in diet occur. Some evidence suggests that determinants of dietary intake may differ between SEP groups. The aim of the present study was to determine whether the associations between personal and environmental variables and children'...

conclusions the significant improvement in the experimental group’s mean knowledge, hbm structures , and behavior scores indicates the positive effect of the intervention. background using various models of behavior change, a number of studies in the area of nutrition education have confirmed that nutrition habits and behaviors can be improved. objectives this study sought to determine the effe...

OBJECTIVES To develop and validate a self-efficacy measure of diabetes self-management, the Lifestyle Self-Efficacy Scale for Latinos with Diabetes (LSESLD), designed for low-income, Spanish-speaking Latinos with diabetes. DESIGN Quantitative and qualitative methods. SETTING Community health centers in central and western Massachusetts. PARTICIPANTS Low-income Latinos (N = 252) enrolled i...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases are caused by multiple behavioral factors, including different dietary factors. We examined to what extent fruit, vegetable and fish consumption are related, and whether behavioral determinants vary across these dietary behaviors from a Transtheoretical model perspective. METHODS Data were collected among 1142 participants (T0; response rate 46%) selected fr...

a survey of relationship between perceived self-efficacy and self-care performance in diabetic patients referring to urmia diabetes center     khezerloo s [1] *, feizi a [2]     received: 13apr, 2012 accepted: 23may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : diabetes is a chronic and disabling disease. in diabetes, self-caring promotes the quality of life and reduces the number of hospitalization...