Disease Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Quality of Life in Patient With Hypertensive Nephropathy

Yen-Yen Chen, Mei-Chen Lee, Shu-Fang Vivienne Wu, Yueh-Min Liu and Hui-Mei Chen

Clinical Nursing Research, 2022, vol. 31, issue 6, 1179-1188

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among disease knowledge, self-efficacy, and quality of life in patients with hypertensive nephropathy. A cross-sectional and correlational design is employed in this study, and a total of 213 participants are collected by convenience sampling from the outpatient Department of Nephrology of a regional teaching hospital in Taiwan. The research instruments include the Hypertensive Nephropathy Knowledge Instrument, the Chronic Kidney Disease Self-Efficacy Instrument, and the Medical Outcome Study Short Form-12, and stepwise multiple regression analysis is used to test the explanatory power of each significantly-correlated independent variable regarding the quality of life. The results show that the higher the disease knowledge, the better the self-efficacy, and the better the quality of life, and self-efficacy is the most important predictor of the quality of life.

Keywords: hypertensive nephropathy; disease knowledge; self-efficacy; quality of life; kidney disease (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/10547738211073396

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