Turkish validity and reliability of the Diabetes Self-Efficacy Scale.
Talip Mankan, Behice Erci, Gülcan Bahçecioğlu Turan and 1 others
PMID 31406747WHAT IT FOUND
A Turkish diabetes self-efficacy questionnaire was usable for adults with diabetes: its items fit together and scores were dependable, so nurses can use it to identify patients' confidence in self-care.
Key findings
01The 8-item Turkish scale had each item's link to the total score ranging from 0.297 to 0.803, and the total score had a consistency value of 0.86, above the 0.70 value the paper called sufficient.
02The items grouped into one overall pattern that accounted for 52.38% of the total score variation.
03The scale was tested in 319 adults with diabetes, with mean age 58.10 ± 1.41 years and 71.5% having type 2 diabetes.
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What it does not show
Participants were recruited from hospitals in Malatya without sampling, so the results may not apply to other Turkish-speaking populations. The study tested the scale in adults with diabetes only, so it does not show usefulness for other groups. The factor structure found here differed from the original study. The paper is a scale validation, not a trial of diabetes care, so it cannot show that using the scale changes outcomes.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that using this scale will improve diabetes self-care or outcomes. This paper only tested the Turkish version of the questionnaire in patients.