StemCell Therapy

Abbas Ebadi,1,2 Davide Ausili,3 Ahmed N Albatineh,4 Shahin Salarvand,5 Reza Ghanei Ghashlagh6

1Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Life Style Institute, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 2Nursing Faculty, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 3Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan-Bicocca, Monza, Italy; 4Department of Community Medicine and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait; 5Social Determinant of Health Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran; 6Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran

Correspondence: Reza Ghanei GhashlaghSocial Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Pasdaran Ave, Sanandaj 6618634683, IranTel +98 9144050284Fax +98 36237511Email Rezaghanei30@yahoo.com

Background: Lifelong self-care is important in particular for patients with diabetes, because preventing diabetes complications can help maintain the quality of life and independence of diabetic patients. Currently, there are 16 self-care tools, the majority of which focus on one part of self-care. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Farsi Self-Care of Diabetes Inventory (F-SCODI) in Iran.Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on 400 diabetic patients who were selected by convenience sampling to complete the F-SCODI. In this regard, construct validity was assessed using exploratory factor analysis. Additionally, the internal consistency of the F-SCODI was evaluated by McDonalds omega coefficient and Cronbachs alpha; whereas its stability was assessed by a test re-test approach.Results: In total, four factors were extracted (activity-nutritional behavior, smoking avoidance behavior, illness-related behaviors, and health-promoting behaviors) in the dimension of self-care maintenance, three factors (symptom monitoring, symptom assessment, and symptom recognition) in the dimension of self-care monitoring, two factors (autonomous self-care and consultative self-care) in the self-care management dimension, and two factors (task-specific self-care confidence and persistence self-care) in the dimension of confidence. In this regard, the overall consistencies of the four dimensions were 0.809, 0.767, 0.590, and 0.886, respectively.Conclusion: This study indicated that the Farsi version of SCODI had acceptable internal consistency and reliability as well as content and construct validity. Given the acceptable psychometric properties, this tool can be used in future studies in Iranian patients with diabetes.

Keywords: diabetes, self-care, Self-Care of Diabetes Inventory, factor analysis, Iran

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