Health and illness self-care in adolescents with IDDM: a test of Orem's theory.
Orem's theory suggests that different self-care actions are necessary to meet requisites related to health (universal self-care) and illness (health-deviation self-care). The authors differentiate these types of self-care, propose hypotheses relating these concepts to other concepts in Orem's theory, and test them in a sample of adolescents with diabetes mellitus. As predicted, universal self-care is significantly related to a measure of the global health state, and health-deviation self-care is related to control of pathology. The findings provide direction for additional research and theory development.
Frey
M A
MA
School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Denyes
M J
MJ
D000293:Adolescent; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology*