OBJECTIVES To evaluate the relationship between Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care in community health centers and self-management behaviors and glycemic control and to examine the relationship between Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care in community health centers and the utilization of community health centers for monitoring and treating diabetes among the patients with type 2 ...

PURPOSE Evidence shows that effective self-management behaviors have the potential to improve health outcomes, quality of life, self-efficacy and reduce morbidity, emergency visits and costs of care. A better understanding of self-management interventions (i.e. programs that help with managing symptoms, treatment, physical and psychological consequences) is needed to achieve a positive impact o...

BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH OBJECTIVE Today's complex healthcare system relies heavily on sophisticated self-care regimens. To navigate the system and follow self-care protocols, patients must be able to understand and use health information, which requires health literacy. However, nearly 90 million Americans lack the necessary health literacy skills to adequately care for themselves in the face o...

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...

BACKGROUND There is a need to better understand the mechanisms which lead to poor outcomes in patients with multimorbidity, especially those factors that might be amenable to intervention. OBJECTIVE This research aims to explore what factors predict self-management behaviour and health outcomes in patients with multimorbidity in primary care in the UK. METHODS A prospective study design was...