Abstract
The research examined the association between patients’ demographics, access to health information on coping and self-efficacy in managing chronic illness. This is a correlation study. The population for this study is seven hundred and eighty-four patients with chronic diseases in two Federal Government Teaching Hospitals in South-East, Nigeria. A Questionnaire and a Coping with Chronic Diseases Self-Efficacy Scale were instruments for data collection. Correlation analysis shows that access to coping information was positively and significantly correlated with self-efficacy in managing chronic diseases. Multiple Regression suggests that disease type was the only patient characteristics significantly associated with self-efficacy when patients have access to coping information. The study conclude that the significant associations indicate that health information can enable patients develop self-efficacy for coping with chronic diseases. Hospital administrators and all stakeholders involved in health care should create an enabling environment for information sharing and flow to patients with chronic diseases. Librarians should play some roles in creating access to health information for patients with chronic diseases through developing and promoting consumer health information resources.Keywords: Health information, Coping; Self-efficacy, Chronic diseases; Self- management; Consumer health information service
Highlights
Disease conditions such as arthritis, hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases, cancer, HIV and AIDS are tagged chronic diseases because they require extended care sometimes for the life span of the individual
Majority 337 (43%) of the respondents are HIV and AIDS patients. This is followed by hypertension 204 (26%), diabetes 131(16.7%), co-morbidity of hypertension and diabetes 52(6.6%), cancer 40 (5.1%) and kidney disease 20(2.6%)
Coping Information Received by Patients with Chronic Diseases
Summary
Disease conditions such as arthritis, hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases, cancer, HIV and AIDS are tagged chronic diseases because they require extended care sometimes for the life span of the individual. Living with a chronic disease and sometimes with multiple chronic diseases can be an all-encompassing challenge which can negatively affect an individual physically and emotionally. They may present with physical impairments, pain, emotional trauma of anxiety, and depression. An inspection of independent variables shows that patients’ age (Beta =.014, p>0.05), gender (Beta .002, p>0.05) educational attainment (Beta =-.056, p>0.05), duration of illness (Beta = -.039, p>0.05) and duration of treatment (Beta=.066, p>0.05) are not significantly associated with patients’ self-efficacy in managing chronic disease when other independent variables are held constant
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