Title: Elderly people with diabetes and psychological problems and mental disorders in nursing
ABSTRACT Object:Explore the path to increase the self-efficacy by analyzing the correlations ofself-efficacy and demographic data,knowledge on diabetes mellitus psychological state,social supports,disease control state as well as treatment measures in diabetes patients. Methods:Patients were recruited from Qilu Hospital of Shandong University according to WHO type 2 diabetes mellitus diagnosis standard in 1 999.Those wim psychiatric disorders and malignant tumors were excluded in this study.The study was carried out by questionnaires,which included demographic data,diabetes related knowledge,self rating depressive scale,social supports rating scale and chronic disease self-efficacy. Results:Social supports and self-efficacy:univariate and multi—variable logistic regression analysis showed that social supports including objective and subjective supports contributed to the increased the scale of self-efficacy. Conclusions:Therefore,increasing efforts on directly intervention,mental nursing,social supports and health education are necessary to improve the scale of self-efficacy,which could further contribute to the effective treatments,delayed and controlled complications and improved quality of life.
Key words:Diabetes mellitus;Psychological nursing; Psychological health