Self-management in chronic conditions: partners in health scale instrument validation
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Self-management in chronic conditions: partners in health scale instrument validation

Isabel Peñarrieta-de Córdova Professors of nursing, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico
Flores Florabel Barrios Professors of nursing, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico
Tranquilina Gutierrez-Gomes Professors of nursing, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico
Ma del Socorro Piñonez-Martinez Professors of nursing, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico
Luz Maria Quintero-Valle Professors of nursing, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico
Hortensia Castañeda-Hidalgo Professors of nursing, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico

Isabel Peñarrieta-de Córdova and colleagues describe the validation of a tool to evaluate self-management of chronic disease and explore the findings of the patient evaluation itself

Aims This article describes a study that aimed to validate the Self-care in Chronic Conditions Partners in Health Scale instrument in the Mexican population. The instrument has been validated in Australia for use as a screening tool by primary healthcare professionals to assess the self-care skills and abilities of people with a chronic illness.

Methods Validation was conducted using baseline data for 552 people with diabetes, hypertension and cancer aged 18 or older who were users of healthcare centres in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Results Results show high reliability and validity of the instrument and three themes were identified: knowledge, adherence, and dealing with and managing side effects.

Conclusion The findings suggest the scale is useful as a generic self-rated clinical tool for assessing self-management in a range of chronic conditions, and provides an outcome measure for comparing populations and change in patient self-management knowledge and behaviour. The authors recommend validating the scale in other Latin-American settings with more research into the effect of gender on self- management.

Nursing Management. 20, 10, 32-37. doi: 10.7748/nm2014.02.20.10.32.e1084

Correspondence

pcordoba@uat.edu.mx

Peer review

This article has been subject to double blind peer review

Conflict of interest

None declared

Received: 20 March 2013

Accepted: 31 May 2013

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