Development of a Comprehensive Self-Management Program Promoting Self Efficacy for Type 2 Diabetic Patients / 기본간호학회지

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive self-management program promoting self efficacy for Type 2 diabetic patients. METHODS: The study was a methodological research design in which previous related research was reviewed to develop the comprehensive self-management program promoting self efficacy using self efficacy theory. RESULTS: Comprehensive self-management programs promoting self efficacy included the whole range of eight self-management domains diet, exercise, medication, self-testing of blood glucose, complication or foot, stress, time, and general health, and consisted of four sources of self efficacy enactive mastery experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and physiological and affective states, as strategies to promote self efficacy. Developmental methods included, in addition to large and small group education, individual education or counseling, and telephone counseling. CONCLUSION: Further studies are needed in community health centers or hospitals to establish the effects on self-management compliance and glycemic control of the comprehensive self-management program promoting self efficacy.