Relevance study on social support and self-efficacy in patients with viral cirrhosis of liver

Abstract

Objective To describe the social support and self-efficacy in patients with viral and hepatitis cirrhosis and to investigate the relevance of social support and self-efficacy.Methods By convenient sampling,totals of 105 patients were surveyed with social support scale,and chronic disease self-efficacy scale.Results Totals of 130 questionnaires were handed out and 105 effective questionnaires were recovered,with the rate of 80.77％.The score of social support of patients was (41.87 ± 7.47),and 61.0％ patients with moderate level,39.0％ patients with high level.Among them,subjective support score was (24.43 ± 4.08) with high level,objective support score was(10.45 ± 2.39) with low level,social support score was (6.99 ± 2.44)with moderate level.The self-efficacy score of patients was (48.53 ± 7.78).The scores of social support and its dimensions were markedly and positively correlated with self-efficacy and its dimensions and the value of correlation coefficients ranged from 0.601 to 0.835 (P ＜ 0.01).Conclusions The level of social support in patients with viral and hepatitis cirrhosis is moderate or high,with higher subjective social support level and lower objective social support level.In all the chronic diseases,the self-efficacy in the patients is in higher level.The score of social support is markedly and positively correlated with self-efficacy,the higher social support,the stronger self-efficacy. Key words: Hepatitis, viral, human; Cirrhosis; Social support; Self-efficacy