conclusions educating health promotion strategies was effective in improving self-care self-efficacy in patients undergoing kidney transplantation. establishment of a holistic caring program is suggested to integrate the pre-transplantation educations with a continual post discharge follow-up. results in the intervention group, the mean of total self-care self-efficacy was 106.96 ± 25.1 at firs...

aims: diabetes as the most common diseases caused by metabolic disorders is an important global challenge. this is a disease that requires lifelong self-care; because the self-care and improvement of the life quality is cost effective .the aim of this study is to determine the effects of the self-efficacy education program on reducing blood sugar levels among the type 2 diabetic patients. it wa...

the present paper investigated the effectiveness of concept mapping as a learning strategy on efl students’ self-regulation (metacognitive self-regulation, time and study environment, effort regulation, peer learning, and help seeking). sixty university students participated in the study. they were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups, each including thirty students. they were a...

ôbjective: âpproximately 66-80%of graduate students experience statistics anxiety and some researchers propose that many students identify statistics courses as the most anxiety-inducing courses in their academic curriculums. âs such, it is likely that statistics anxiety is, in part, responsible for many students delaying enrollment in these courses for as long as possible. this paper proposes ...

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...

Background: Chronic diseases in children lead to failure in the development of self-esteem and productivity. Self-efficacy decreases as one’s behaviors become more complex and difficult to deal with. Storytelling is an observational learning method, which is effective in improving self-efficacy. Aim: to determine the effects of storytelling on self-efficacy in children with thalassemia (aged 7-...

The present study was conducted to examine the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of Iranian EFL teachers and also the relationship between the self-supervision and the self-efficacy of intermediate adult learners individually. To this end, 40 EFL teachers and 55 intermediate adult learners were selected from two branches of Kish Language Institute. In this study, “...