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Self-Efficacy Impacts Self-Care and HbA1c in Young Adults With Type I Diabetes

 

作者: Catharine Johnston-Brooks,   Megan Lewis,   Satish Garg,  

 

期刊: Psychosomatic Medicine  (OVID Available online 2002)
卷期: Volume 64, issue 1  

页码: 43-51

 

ISSN:0033-3174

 

年代: 2002

 

出版商: OVID

 

关键词: diabetes,;self-efficacy,;self-esteem,;HbA1c,;self-care,;mediation.

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

ObjectiveThe present study examined self-efficacy and self-esteem as basic aspects of the self that influence self-care and physiological outcomes among young adults with Type I diabetes. The two aims of this study were 1) to examine the cross-sectional and longitudinal role of the self-variables as they predict self-care and HbA1c and 2) to test whether self-care mediates the association between the self variables and HbA1c using cross-sectional and longitudinal data.MethodsOne hundred ten participants were recruited from a regional diabetes outpatient clinic. Inclusion criteria were age (18–35 years) and duration of diabetes (>1 year before recruitment). Participants were 61% female and 88% white. In addition, the sample had an average annual income between $24,999 and $34,999, and 85% had completed some or all of college. The average duration of diabetes was 15 years.ResultsUsing multiple regression analyses we found that, compared with self-esteem, self-efficacy was a better predictor of all aspects of self-care and HbA1c in cross-sectional analyses, in addition to diet and exercise self-care, and a better predictor of HbA1c in longitudinal analyses. The data also supported the cross-sectional and longitudinal mediational model in which better self-care helped account for the association between greater self-efficacy and better HbA1c.ConclusionsSelf-efficacy is an important factor for management of self-care practices and physiological outcomes among young adults with Type I diabetes, and self-care may be an important mechanism by which self-efficacy influences HbA1c levels.

 

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