Diabetes health-beliefs, self-care practices and glycaemic control among Malaysian young adults with diabetes

Aris, Aishairma; Blake, Holly; Adams, Gary

Abstract

Self-care practices and glycaemic control remain suboptimal among young adults with diabetes. One of the known factors to influence self-care behaviours is health beliefs. Targeting health beliefs through diabetes education facilitates individual’s diabetes self-care behaviours. Studies investigating health beliefs of young adults with diabetes are limited, however, to educational settings and include mixed-age participant groups. Knowledge about the health beliefs, self-care practices and glycaemic control specifically among Malaysian young adults with diabetes is lacking.

Citation

Aris, A., Blake, H., & Adams, G. (2011). Diabetes health-beliefs, self-care practices and glycaemic control among Malaysian young adults with diabetes. Journal of Nursing Referência (Revista de Enfermagem Referência), 4(Supp),

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 1, 2011
• Publication Date: Nov 30, 2011
• Deposit Date: Nov 22, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 22, 2016
• Journal: Journal of Nursing Referência (Revista de Enfermagem Referência)
• Print ISSN: 0874-0283
• Electronic ISSN: 2182-2883
• Publisher: Unidade de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde - Enfermagem da Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 4
• Issue: Supp
• Keywords: Health beliefs, Health Belief Model, self-care, compliance, adherence, glycaemic control, HbA1C, Young adults, Adulthood, Insulin-treated.
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/708620
• Related Public URLs: http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0874-0283&lng=en
• Additional Information: Abstract published in two volumes of abstracts, which are a supplement to no. 4 of the III Series of the Referência journal