فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Introduction and Aims: Diabetes is one of the chronic and prevalent diseases in the world.Diabetic patients’ number has increased 7 times during last 20 years. If this current situationcontinues, diabetic patients’ population will be 350 millions ones in 2030. It means that 7millions people will be added annually. Up to now, different uncontrollable factors have beenmonitored in self‑caring of this disease for managing and preventing from its early and late sideeffects. This research is conducted to study the role of self‑efficacy as a determinant agent inself‑caring of diabetic patients. Study Method: This is a narrative review study in which variousinformation banks and search motors such as PubMed, ProQuest, SCOPUS, Elsevier werereviewed. Diabetes, self‑care and self efficacy keywords from cross sectional, cohort, clinicalexperimental studies and systematic review were also used in the study construction. IranianBanks such as IRANMEDEX, MEDLINE and also different articles from domestic research andscientific magazines were selected. Time spectrum of reviewed studies was supposed to bepublished from 1990 up to 2011. Results: Self‑care situation among diabetic patients not only isunsatisfactory but also the studies` results show that self‑efficacy rate is low among them. Thefindings of the studies prove that there is a direct relation between self‑efficacy and self‑carein the patients in a way that this construct owns the predictability power of self‑care behavior.Conclusion: Self‑caring has a significant role in controlling of diabetes disease. Self‑efficacycan induce motivation directly take health promoting behavior through efficacy expectations.It also affects motivation, indirectly, through perceived barriers and determining commitmentor stability for following function map. So, self‑efficacy is very important in changing self‑carebehavior process.