فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Introduction and Goal: In diseases and disorders such as diabetes, treatment and diseasemanagement depends mostly on patient’s performance. So, self‑care is very important in thesepatients and they can affect their own welfare, functional capabilities, and disease processes byachieving self‑care skills. Nowadays, we know that self care follows individual, psychologicaland social factors which its recognition can assist health care providing systems to carry outeducational programs. This study aimed to investigate the role of perceived benefits and barriersin doing self‑care behaviors among diabetic patients. Materials and Methods: This study is anarrative review and articles with sectional, cohort, and interventional, clinical trial, qualitativeand narrative designs were chosen using databases and academic search engines such asPubMed, SCOPUS, ProQuest, Elsevier and key words like self‑care diabetes, perceived benefitsand barriers. Persian articles were also selected using databases like IRANMEDEX, MEDLIB,as well as searching the articles in sites of domestic scientific magazines. Results: Reviewedarticles’ findings show the average situation of perceived benefits and barriers in diabeticpatients regarding self‑care. Qualified blood sugar (glucose) control, weight control, happinessfeeling and expenses reduction are the most important perceived benefits. The most significantperceived barriers in self‑care consist of lack of family support, shame feeling, forgetfulnessand not being able to ignore foods’ flavor. Conclusion: Perceived benefits and barriers, ascentral constructs in some patterns and theories of behavior change, were related to self‑care,so that it was directly related to perceived benefits and reversely related to perceived barriers.Therefore, these two constructs can be considered as strategies for promoting self‑carebehaviors in diabetic patients.