Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease 6-Item Scale.
SES6C
Confidence in self-managing a chronic condition (symptom control, role function, emotional management, communicating with clinicians, doing tasks)
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 6 items. 10-point confidence (1 not at all confident to 10 totally confident); mean score (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages (Stanford CDSMP international dissemination)
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Lorig, K. R., Sobel, D. S., Ritter, P. L., Laurent, D., & Hobbs, M. (2001). Effect of a self-management program on patients with chronic disease. Effective Clinical Practice, 4(6), 256-262.
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