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

International Wound Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 326-334

  Brown, Annemarie ^a   Kendall, Sally ^b   Flanagan, Madeleine ^b   Cottee, Michaela ^c  

^a Independent Tissue Viability Consultant Doctoral Fellow East of England SHA ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instrument development; Likert scales; Prevention; Recurrence; Self care; Self efficacy; Venous leg ulcers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPRESSION STOCKING; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FACE VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LEG EXERCISE; LEG ULCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EFFICACY SCALE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STANDARDS; VARICOSE ULCER; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RECURRENCE; SELF CARE; SELF EFFICACY; VARICOSE ULCER;

EID: 84900341102     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/iwj.12199     Document Type: Article

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