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Predicting self-care behaviors among older adults coping with arthritis
— a cross-sectional and 1-year longitudinal comparative analysis | | Author(s) | Lisa McDonald-Miszczak, Andrew V Wister |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 17, no 6, December 2005 |
| Pages | pp 835-857 |
| Source | http://www.sagepublications.com |
| Keywords | Arthritis ; Morale ; Mobility ; Self care capacity ; Cross sectional surveys ; Longitudinal surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Correlates and predictors of self-care activities for people diagnosed with arthritis are examined both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Data are from telephone surveys conducted with 313 older people (mean age 68.8, chosen from a larger sample the Vancouver North Shore Self-Care Study), who reported professionally diagnosed arthritis. Ten of the eleven self-care activities changed significantly during the 1-year interval, with 9 showing increased participation. Results from hierarchical regression showed that all three blocks of predictors explained significant portions of variance, with gender and perceived importance of general health significantly predicting self-care activities at Time 1, at Time 2 and longitudinally. These results highlight the influence of demographic, health status and health belief variables on self care both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Future work should focus on the mediating effects of these and other variables to better understand the processes by which individuals engage in self-care behaviour. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060920008 A |
| Classmark | CLA: DQ: C4: CA: 3KB: 3J: 7S |
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