background: diabetic patients have some difficulties in controlling their disease and integrating it in their life. self-efficacy is a psychosocial variable in the field of diabetes which can have desirable or undesirable effects on all kinds of disease outcomes. this study aimed to determine self-efficacy and its effective factors among type 2 diabetic patients. methods: this cross-sectional s...

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...

teachers’ sense of efficacy belief has been introduced as a context-specific construct, but the related literature is not clear on this specificity. this study was an attempt to show how contextual factors influence efficacy beliefs among english language teachers. to this end, thirty iranian efl teachers working in both school and private institute contexts were chosen as the participants to r...

Guidelines on long-term opioid therapy recommend frequent reassessment of harm, efficacy, and misuse of these potentially harmful and sometimes ineffective medications. In primary care, there is a need for a brief, patient-reported instrument. This report details the initial steps in the development of such an instrument. An interdisciplinary team of clinician-scientists performed four discrete...

This study set out, using a prospective design, to examine the health-promoting lifestyle factors for cancer survivors. A questionnaire, based on the health promotion model, was used to collect self-reported data during clinical visits on the health-promoting lifestyle factors related to cancer and the health locus of control. A total of 57 cancer patients were followed up from the date of thei...

Background: Infertility as an important life stressor causes increased distress. The way of dealing with stress in individuals is different depending on the health locus of control. Also self- efficacy as an essential indicator of mental health determines how people cope with infertility. This study aimed to investigate the association of self efficacy with health locus of control and psycholog...

background the improvement of self-caring and self-efficacy behaviors is vital in the successful management of asthma. objectives the aim of the research is to determine the relation between self-efficacy of asthma control and quality of life in iranian asthmatic patients. patients and methods this research represents a descriptive-analytical study. the 257 asthmatic patients referred to the cl...