Mariusz Jaworski and Miros�?awa Adamus
Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw School of Tourism and HospitalityManagement, Poland
Preliminary studies have shown a significant role the sense of responsibility for the health in patients with diabetes in term of health-related behaviour. The sense of responsibility for health construct is defined as self-perceptions relating to motivation and use of various behavioral strategies to keep good health. Two aspects characterize sense of responsibility: active involvement and adequate behavior. Aim of this study was to much more deeper analyze the selected factors which could influence on the level of health sense of responsibility in patients with diabetes with complications and accompanying diseases. Three research tools were used in the study: Health Suggestibility Scale (HSS), Health Sense of Responsibility Scale (HSRS), Life Orientation Test (LOT-R). The number used drugs, the current age, body weight and growth were analyzed too. The method of structural equation modeling (SEM) was using to develop models analyzed the relationship between psychological characteristics (suggesibility and optimism) and health sense of responsibility in diabetic patients with complications and accompanying diseases. The SEM analysis has shown that there are four main factors which influence on the formation of the health sense of responsibility in diabetic patients with complications and / or accompanying diseases. There are: the health suggesibility, the dispositional optimism, the duration of therapy and the number of used drugs. The sense of responsibility for the health is a very important psychological factor in work with patients with type 2 diabetes. These results could have a clinical implications.
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