High levels of self-efficacy in patients with type 2 diabetes attending a tertiary level clinic

• Main Authors: K. Mostert Wentzel (Author), C. Nel (Author), A.J. van Rooijen (Author), J. Francis (Author), G. Gibbs (Author), K. Hacker (Author), S. Gebert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: AOSIS, 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Self-management is a vital element in the care of type 2diabetes patients.  In turn, self-efficacy plays a major role in patients' self-management. Self-efficacy is the patient's personal judgement of his/herconfidence in performing aspects of diabetes self-management.  This study investig...