title: [Exploring the life events self-efficacy of schizophrenic outpatients].
abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the life events self-efficacy of schizophrenic outpatients and the relationships between personal demographic data, psychotic symptoms, stressful life events and self-efficacy. 135 outpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia were assessed with personal demographic data, a psychotic symptoms scale, a stressful life events scale and a self-efficacy scale. We found a standardized score for life events self-efficacy of 69.41; the lowest score was for social skills self-efficacy. Patients who believed in religion showed higher life events self-efficacy. Life events self-efficacy was inversely related to stress of life events and to psychotic symptoms. The predictors of self-efficacy were negative symptoms, stress of life events, positive symptoms, and religion, which together accounted for 45.7% of variance. Among these predictors, negative symptoms were the strongest predictors, and accounted for 35.4% of variance. Based on these findings, we suggest that nursing personnel should utilize the concept of self-efficacy in caring for schizophrenic patients and develop more effective therapy designed to promote life events self-efficacy.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Mei-Ho Institute of Technology, Taiwan, ROC. 7193@ms13.url.com.tw
authors.forename: Ching-Yun
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Hsin-Hsin
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Chung
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D020377:Self Efficacy