PMID- 30121681
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20191029
LR  - 20191029
IS  - 0300-5283 (Print)
IS  - 0300-5283 (Linking)
VI  - 73
IP  - 4
DP  - 2018 Aug
TI  - Social support, self-efficacy and their correlation among patients with Type 2 
      Diabetes Mellitus: A primary care perspective.
PG  - 197-201
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Social support and self-efficacy are factors that influence 
      patients' health behaviour. However, the relationship between these two factors 
      among patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) has not been adequately 
      explored. This study aims to report social support and selfefficacy of Malaysian 
      T2DM patients, and their correlations. METHODS: This cross-sectional 
      questionnaire study involved 329 patients with T2DM who received their follow up 
      at a public primary care clinic. Patients were selected via systematic random 
      sampling. Patients self-completed locally adapted versions of the Medical 
      Outcomes Study (MOS) Social Support Survey and Diabetic Management Self Efficacy 
      Scale (DMSES). The scores of both tools were analysed to determine the 
      association and correlation between social support and self-efficacy. RESULTS: 
      The mean score for overall social support was 72.7+/-21.40 score range (0-100). 
      "Affectionate support" was rated the highest averaged mean score at 78.31+/-23.71 
      (score range: 0-100). The mean DMSES score was 147.6+/-35.5 (score range :0-200), 
      of which "medications" subscale was rated the highest with averaged mean scores 
      9.07+/-1.67 (score range: 0-10). Overall social support and self-efficacy were 
      found to be weakly correlated (r=0.197, p<0.001). However, all subscales of 
      social support were moderately correlated with "medications" subscale of 
      self-efficacy. CONCLUSION: Social support is significantly associated with 
      patients' self-efficacy in handling their own medications.
FAU - Rashid, A A
AU  - Rashid AA
AD  - Universiti Putra Malaysia, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of 
      Family Medicine, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. aneesa@upm.edu.my.
FAU - Zuhra, H
AU  - Zuhra H
AD  - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family 
      Medicine, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
FAU - Tan, C E
AU  - Tan CE
AD  - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family 
      Medicine, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Malaysia
TA  - Med J Malaysia
JT  - The Medical journal of Malaysia
JID - 0361547
SB  - IM
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/*psychology/therapy
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Primary Health Care
MH  - Psychological Tests
MH  - Self Efficacy
MH  - Self-Management/psychology
MH  - Social Support
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2018/08/20 06:00
MHDA- 2019/10/30 06:00
CRDT- 2018/08/20 06:00
PHST- 2018/08/20 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/08/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/10/30 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med J Malaysia. 2018 Aug;73(4):197-201.