Effect of audio-visual education on self-efficacy toward marriage in single people with type 1 diabetes

Abstract EN

Background : People with diabetes report that diabetes affects particular aspects of their marital life and leads to other problems in their lives.

Moreover, the self-efficacy of diabetic patients is affected by their disease in various respects.

There is a significant relationship between self-efficacy and health behaviors.

Objectives : This study was conducted to determine the effect of audio-visual education on self-efficacy toward marriage in single people with type 1 diabetes.

Methods : This randomized, controlled trial study was carried out on 100 unmarried patients with type 1 diabetes visiting Iran’s diabetes society in 2015 - 2016.

The convenient sampling method was used in this study.

Samples were divided into two groups (50 patients in each group) with a simple, randomized sampling method.

The data collecting tool was a researcher-made questionnaire that patients completed before the intervention and eight weeks afterwards.

The intervention was an educationalCD about improving self-efficacy toward marriage in diabetics.

Using descriptive statistics, inferential statistics (i.e., chi-square, t-test, paired t, Fisher, and co-variance tests), and SPSS software version 16, the self-efficacy toward marriage in both the intervention and control groups was compared.

A significant level was considered less than 0.05.

Results: The mean of the self-efficacy score improved significantly in the intervention group (84.14 _ 16.29 to 105.82 _ 5.49, P < 0.001).

However, this score decreased in the control group (92.92_12.33 to 86.48_11.54, P < 0.001).

In addition, the self-efficacy in the control group was higher than in the intervention group before the study (P = 0.003), although the score of the intervention group significantly increased after the study (P < 0.001).

Conclusions : This study showed that audio-visual training can have a significant effect on the self-efficacy of people with type 1 diabetes.

Providing audio-visual equipment to referral centers of type 1 diabetics, such as hospitals, health centers, and clinics, as well as informing related officials, can be of benefit to managers.

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