Abstract
Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effects of family support, motivation factors (satisfaction, self-efficacy) and patient’s subjective general evaluations in diabetes self-management behavior on motivation to manage diabetes on one’s own in outpatients with diabetes who have received support from their family.
Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to two hundred and eight outpatients with diabetes.
Results: Fifty-five outpatients with diabetes (26.4%) have received support from their family. Their average age was 59.8 years old, the median HbA1c% (JDS) was 6.4. Results of path analysis showed a significant path coefficient for links between family support and patient’s satisfaction with family support and diabetes self-efficacy (p<.05). The path coefficients for the links from patient’s satisfaction with family support to motivations for self-management were significant (p<.01). The path coefficients for motivations for self-management were significant (p<.05) from subjective general evaluations of patients where self-management behaviors showed significant path coefficients while feeling a sense of self-efficacy with diabetes.
Conclusion: The results of this investigation indicated that patient’s satisfaction with family support and patients’ own subjective general evaluation in diabetes self-management behavior associated with diabetes self-efficacy positively influenced motivation in diabetes self-management in diabetic outpatients.
