conclusions it seems that health education programs based on the assessment of the needs of the patients can positively affect their behavioral motivation and performance in physical activities. results a significant increase in the self-efficacy and outcome expectations in the experimental group was observed one month after the training intervention, and the amount of physical activity showed ...

objectives: chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus have negative effects on physical and mental health. depression is the most common psychological problems in this group of patients. the purpose of this study was to predict depression symptoms based on self-efficacy and social support. materials and methods: a total of 130 patients with diabetes recruited from several clinics in shiraz. th...

abstract background: selection and acceptance of appropriate sexual behavior and sexual function are made difficult by low sexual self‑efficacy in the postpartum period. the general purpose of this research is to define the effects of an 8‑week pelvic floor muscle exercise program on sexual self‑efficacy in primiparous women after childbirth. materials and methods: this clinical trial was perfo...

background and objective: different personality aspects including identity styles, self-efficacy, and cognitive abilities can play a certain role in successful learning result in high educational success. we assessed the value of identity styles, self-efficacy and metacognition beliefs for predicting the level of educational success in female high-school students. methods: in a cross-sectional ...

stress is not always a direct result of stressful conditions, but rather the way they are perceived. thus individual variables that may be associated with perceived stress should be examined in stress studies. this study investigates the intermediary role of self-efficacy in relation with stress, glycosylated haemoglobin and health-related quality of life in patients with type2 diabetes.all wom...

test is the majority of student’s life and test anxiety is an experience that has commonly been observed during exams. in fact, anxiety is a vague feeling and very uncomfortable that so often considered to be associated with one or more physical sense, for instance, the empty feeling of heart palpitations, headache and sweating. the purpose of this study is to investigate and to compare the sel...

ôbjective: self-efficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. regarding to similar findings it is supposed that concept of self efficacy has a general role on mental health. the present study focused on examining the relationships between self-efficacy and symptoms of depression, anxiety, worry and social avoidance in a large sample of normal students (n=549...

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...

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...

this article, first, examined the role of efl university students' critical thinking (ct) in their self-efficacy beliefs. second, the role of gender as a moderating factor in the relationship between students' ct and self-efficacy beliefs was investigated. third, the difference between females and males regarding their ct and efficacy beliefs was studied. to attain the goals of the research, 86...