Self-Efficacy in the Adoption and Maintenance of Health Behaviors: Theoretical Approaches and a New Model

This chapter presents of a chronic disease, many types of self-management practices are both feasible and beneficial, and that perceived self-efficacy to execute those practices and to manage the consequences of the disease improves the outcomes greatly. It organizes into three sections which define and discusses: the nature of chronic disease and its management, characteristics of self-management and the interactions among self-efficacy, self-management and chronic disease outcomes. It is useful to look more closely at characteristics of chronic diseases in order to specify the role of self-management. The afore-mentioned components of self-management-understanding and interpreting disease and illness…