Encouraging patients to self-care - the preliminary development and validation of the VeLUSET©, a self-efficacy tool for venous leg ulcer patients, aged 60 years and over

Annemarie Brown; Sally Kendall; Madeleine Flanagan; Michaela Cottee

doi:10.1111/iwj.12199

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Encouraging patients to self-care - the preliminary development and validation of the VeLUSET©, a self-efficacy tool for venous leg ulcer patients, aged 60 years and over

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Encouraging patients to self-care - the preliminary development and validation of the VeLUSET©, a self-efficacy tool for venous leg ulcer patients, aged 60 years and over

Annemarie Brown, Sally Kendall, Madeleine Flanagan and Michaela Cottee

International wound journal, Vol.11(3), pp.326-334

Brown A, Kendall S, Flanagan M, Cottee M. Encouraging patients to self-care - the preliminary development and validation of the VeLUSET©, a self-efficacy tool for venous leg ulcer patients, aged 60 years and over.

2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.12199

PMID: 24373556

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Abstract

Instrument development

Likert scales

Prevention

Recurrence

Self-care

Self-efficacy

Venous leg ulcers

Venous leg ulceration has a high recurrence rate. Patients with healed or frequently recurring venous ulceration are required to perform self-care behaviours to prevent recurrence or promote healing, but evidence suggests that many find these difficult to perform. Bandura's self-efficacy theory is a widely used and robust behaviour change model and underpins many interventions designed to promote self-care in a variety of chronic conditions. By identifying areas where patients may experience difficulty in performing self-care, interventions can be developed to strengthen their self-efficacy beliefs in performing these activities successfully. There are currently a variety of self-efficacy scales available to measure self-efficacy in a variety of conditions; but not a disease-specific scale for use with venous ulcer patients. The aim of this study, therefore, was to develop and validate a disease-specific, patient-focused self-efficacy scale for patients with healed venous leg ulceration. This scale will need further validation studies; however, it is ready for use in clinical practice and will enable practitioners to identify those patients who may need additional support in performing self-care activities to prevent recurrence.

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Title: Encouraging patients to self-care - the preliminary development and validation of the VeLUSET©, a self-efficacy tool for venous leg ulcer patients, aged 60 years and over
Authors/Creators: Annemarie Brown - Independent Tissue Viability Consultant Doctoral Fellow, East of England SHA.
Sally Kendall - University of Hertfordshire
Madeleine Flanagan - University of Hertfordshire
Michaela Cottee - University of Hertfordshire
Publication Details: International wound journal, Vol.11(3), pp.326-334
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Edition: Brown A, Kendall S, Flanagan M, Cottee M. Encouraging patients to self-care - the preliminary development and validation of the VeLUSET©, a self-efficacy tool for venous leg ulcer patients, aged 60 years and over.
Number of pages: 9
Identifiers: 991005571145207891
Murdoch Affiliation: Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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Citation topics: 1 Clinical & Life Sciences; 1.266 Wounds & Ulcers; 1.266.1444 Varicose Veins
Web Of Science research areas: Dermatology; Surgery
ESI research areas: Clinical Medicine