الكفاءة الصحية المدركة لدى الأفراد المصابين بالأمراض المزمنة

Abstract EN

The current research aimed to identify the perceived health competence of individuals with chronic diseases, and to identify the significance of the differences in the relationship between the perceived health competence of health according to the gender variable (males – females).

To achieve the objectives of the current research, the researcher used the Perceived Health Aptitude Scale and included (31) items in its final form, and the psychometric properties were extracted from the validity and reliability of the scale.

The scale was applied to a sample of chronic disease patients amounting to (689) patients with chronic diseases by the electronic application of the research community in the City of Medicine Hospital for its branches, (Baghdad Teaching Hospital, the Specialized Center for Surgery (Ghazi Hariri Hospital), the Private Nursing Home Hospital, and the Iraqi Center for Cardiology) And after processing the data relying on the appropriate statistical means through the statistical bag (SPSS), the results of the current research indicated that the perceived health competence is higher than the average, meaning that the respondents had perceived health competence in the sense that they have an internal control center, and also indicated that there is a difference in health competence.

Perception according to the gender variable (male - female) and in favor of males, In light of the results that I report, a number of recommendations and proposals were made that expand the research directorates for later research.