فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

INTRODUCTION: An important construct to consider within diabetes management and the changinglandscape of diabetes therapies is self‑efficacy. Self‑efficacy research holds the potential to informand assist the diabetes team as well as patients with type 1 diabetes.METHODS: In this descriptive‑correlation study, 200 adolescents with type 1 diabetes were enrolled.To measure spiritual intelligence, the 24‑question Spiritual Intelligence Self‑Report Inventoryquestionnaire and to measure self‑efficacy of diabetes, the Self‑efficacy Questionnaire (8 questions)were used. Data collection was conducted by simple sampling. Data were analyzed using Pearsonanalysis, mean, and standard deviation analysis tests.RESULTS: Nearly 66% of the participants were female, the mean age of the samples was17.10 ± 1.85 years, the mean duration of diabetes was 5.98 ± 3.79 years, and 62.5% had a history ofdiabetes in first‑degree relatives. Almost 42% of the participants were the first children of the family and29.5% were studying at the university.The mean score of spiritual intelligence was 60.42 ± 12.9. Themean self-efficacy score was 5.41 ± 1.87.The mean scores in the critical thinking, personal meaningproduction, transcendental awareness, conscious state expansion were 18.31 ± 4.33, 13.17 ± 3.36,11.26 ± 3.36, 46.14 ± 1.04, 11.33 ± 1.04, and 11.89 ± 3.9, respectively. Cronbach’s alpha level on thelevel of spiritual intelligence and self‑efficacy was 0.903 and 0.082, respectively, at 95% confidencelevel. There was a significant relationship between spiritual intelligence and self‑efficacy (P = 0.026).There was no significant relationship between self‑efficacy with spiritual intelligence subscales.CONCLUSION: This study showed that spiritual intelligence correlates with self‑efficacy and has adecisive role in improving the health of adolescents with diabetes.