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Middle-Range Theory for the Nursing Diagnosis of Low Self-Efficacy in Health
Reinaldo Gutiérrez Barreiro1, Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes1, Layana De Paula Cavalcante1
1Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
Objectives:
theoretical validation of the concept of low self-efficacy in health as a nursing diagnosis construct.
Methods:
construction of a middle-range theory for validating diagnoses, comprised of five stages: definition of the approach for building the theory; definition of the main concepts; creation of a pictorial diagram; formulation of proposals; establishment of causal relationships and evidence for clinical practice. The main concepts were identified through a literature review and the studies were taken from the LILACS, SCOPUS, CINAHL and PubMed/MEDLINE databases. The final sample was comprised of 92 articles.
Results:
eighteen etiological factors and 16 clinical indicators were identified; characterized as antecedents and manifestations for inferring a diagnosis of low self-efficacy in health.
Conclusions:
the related concepts of the new nursing diagnosis of low self-efficacy in health, to be applied in clinical nursing practice, were identified and defined.
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