Abstract
Objective To improve self-efficacy of community patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM)through stan dard health education. Therefore, it help patients set up healthy belief, increase ability of self management, reduce psychological burden, control blood glucose level and decrease the incidence ratet of acute and chronic complications of type 2 DM. Methods 96 patients with diabetes were treated with personal health education including planned and rational intervention and self-efficacy training. Results After the intervention, patient selfefficacy and self management level were obviously improved and the blood glucose was controlled effectively. The improvement has reached the statistic significance ( P ＜ 0. 01 or P ＜ 0. 05). Conclusions Self-efficacy is the best indicator of health-related behavior change. Through the intervention of self-efficacy by health education, it could make the patients raise the ability of the self-management, establish out-hospital health behavior model, control the disease positively and improve life quality. Key words: Diabetes mellitus,type 2; Health education; Self-efficacy
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