effect of audio-visual education on self-efficacy toward marriage in single people with type 1 diabetes

conclusions this study showed that audio-visual training can have a significant effect on the self-efficacy of people with type 1 diabetes. providing audio-visual equipment to referral centers of type 1 diabetics, such as hospitals, health centers, and clinics, as well as informing related officials, can be of benefit to managers. results the mean of the self-efficacy score improved significantly in the intervention group (84.14 ± 16.29 to 105.82 ± 5.49, p < 0.001). however, this score decreased in the control group (92.92 ± 12.33 to 86.48 ± 11.54, p < 0.001). in addition, the self-efficacy in the control group was higher than in the intervention group before the study (p = 0.003), although the score of the intervention group significantly increased after the study (p < 0.001). background people with diabetes report that diabetes affects particular aspects of their marital life and leads to other problems in their lives. moreover, the self-efficacy of diabetic patients is affected by their disease in various respects. there is a significant relationship between self-efficacy and health behaviors. objectives this study was conducted to determine the effect of audio-visual education on self-efficacy toward marriage in single people with type 1 diabetes. methods this randomized, controlled trial study was carried out on 100 unmarried patients with type 1 diabetes visiting iran’s diabetes society in 2015 - 2016. the convenient sampling method was used in this study. samples were divided into two groups (50 patients in each group) with a simple, randomized sampling method. the data collecting tool was a researcher-made questionnaire that patients completed before the intervention and eight weeks afterwards. the intervention was an educational cd about improving self-efficacy toward marriage in diabetics. using descriptive statistics, inferential statistics (i.e., chi-square, t-test, paired t, fisher, and co-variance tests), and spss software version 16, the self-efficacy toward marriage in both the intervention and control groups was compared. a significant level was considered less than 0.05.