Self-efficacy in Activities of daily living and symptom management in people with dizziness: a focus group study
Background: Self-efficacy is associated with health status, health behaviour and health behaviour change in various chronic health conditions. Purpose: To describe self-efficacy in relation to Activities of daily living and symptom management in people with dizziness. Material and methods: Thirteen...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Disability and rehabilitation 2019-03, Vol.41 (6), p.705-713 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Background: Self-efficacy is associated with health status, health behaviour and health behaviour change in various chronic health conditions.
Purpose: To describe self-efficacy in relation to Activities of daily living and symptom management in people with dizziness.
Material and methods: Thirteen women and three men, aged 45-82 years, with persistent dizziness (duration 4 months to 30 years) were recruited from an outpatient physiotherapy unit. A qualitative study was conducted using four focus groups and one individual interview and was then analysed with qualitative content analysis.
Results: The participants conveyed, in-depth information concerning two predefined main categories. Self-efficacy in Activities of daily living was related to challenging body positions and motions, environments, social activities, work tasks, and complex cognitive behaviours. Self-efficacy in symptom management was related to distress and aggravated symptoms, unfamiliar environment, and unknown people.
Conclusions: People with dizziness describe how self-efficacy for specific activities varies according to the perceived difficulty of the task, the context of the activity, and day-to-day variations in general wellbeing. The results underscore the importance of targeting self-efficacy in the rehabilitation of people with dizziness. Our findings can guide the rehabilitation process by providing a deeper understanding of self-efficacy judgements in relation to Activities of daily living and symptom management in people with dizziness.
Implication for rehabilitation
This study adds important in-depth knowledge to the rehabilitation area on self-efficacy beliefs in relation to Activities of daily living and symptom management in people with dizziness.
Self-efficacy for specific activities varies according to the perceived difficulty of the task, the context in which the activity takes place and day-to-day variations in perceived general well-being.
The results can be used as a topic list to guide rehabilitation efforts in exploring and intervening aspects of people's everyday activities that are affected by low self-efficacy judgements.
Activities perceived to be crucial to everyday life and important for well-being should be targeted in rehabilitation to increase self-efficacy and thereby activity performance and participation in people with dizziness. |
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ISSN: | 0963-8288 1464-5165 1464-5165 |
DOI: | 10.1080/09638288.2017.1406008 |