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¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Research Abstract |
For developing a scale to measure the ability to control over health autonomously which is expected to apply to outcome evaluation of health learning, 399 residents in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, from 40 to 79 years old, were asked to complete a questionnaire. Two hundred and seventy-one (67.9% of the) samples responded to it effectively A scale for measuring the ability of critical thinking, which is being developed by myself, was tested in the questionnaire. The ability of Critical thinking is one of core constructs in the ability to control over health autonomously. The results were as follows ; 1) A fifteen-item scale was most reliable. The Cronbach's alpha was 0.839. This is difeerent from the result in the pilot study 2) The score of the scale was from 29 to 85 and the mean and standard deviation was 54.29.7. This score was not correlated with age and gender but was significantly correlated with education (p=0.005) and job status (p=0.035). These results shows the validity of the scale.
The relationship between adherence to diet and exercise, and emotional adjustment, self-efficacy and social support was explored in people with diabetes mellitus by developing new scales, because emotional adjustment, self-efficacy and social support were considered fundamentaly important in forming the ability to control over health autonomously Outpatients in a university hospital were asked to complete a questionnaire. The results shows that self-efficacy is the most important factor for adherence to diet and exercise in people with diabetes mellitus.
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