a survey of relationship between perceived self-efficacy and self-care performance in diabetic patients referring to urmia diabetes center

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 and with continuous of its pursuit, the acute and chronic side effects can be prevented. self- efficacy is a basis to reinforce of self-caring in diabetes. the purpose of this study is assessment of relationship between perceived self-efficacy and self-care in diabetic patients.   materials & methods this descriptive-analytical study was performed on 100 diabetic patients who referred to emamkhomeiny hospital, urmia. they were selected by easy sampling. data collection tools were demographic information, self-efficacy assessment using confidence in diabetes self- care scale (cids) and self-care scale evaluation using glasgow and toobert measures for diabetes. data analysis was performed by spss.   result : results indicated that average score of self-efficacy among patients was 73.8± 18.3 and the average score of self-care was 83.9±16.2 .the most of the patients had an average score of self-efficacy and self-care. the spearman correlation coefficient showed a direct significant relationship between self-efficacy and self-care scores of patients.   conclusion: patients’ beliefs about self-efficacy to the implementation of self-care and performing self-care behaviors were in medium rate. since self-efficacy is the most important element to determine of self-care behaviors, it is necessary to promote the self-efficacy for increasing the self-care behaviors and consequently, prevention of side effects of diabetes. therefore educational program on self-efficacy for improving this skill among diabetic patients should be considered.   key words: self-efficacy, self-care, diabetes     address: nursing and midwifery faculty, urmia university of medical sciences, urmia, iran   tel: (+98)(0441)2754961   email: [email protected]   [1] master ofnursing, faculty ofof nursing and midwiferyurmia(corresponding author)  [2] assistant professor, phd in nursing, faculty of medicineurmi a