Self-Care of African Immigrant Adults with Chronic Illness.

This cross-sectional study aims to describe the self-care of adult African immigrants in the US with chronic illness and explore the relationship between acculturation and self-care. A total of 88 African immigrants with chronic illness were enrolled. Self-care was measured with the Self Care of Chronic Illness Inventory v3 and the Self-Care Self-Efficacy scale.

Maintaining cultural identity: A systematic mixed studies review of cultural influences on the self-care of African immigrants living with non-communicable disease.

Aim: To understand and identify cultural factors influencing the self-care practices of African immigrants living with chronic illness in countries outside Africa.

Background: The influence of cultural factors on self-care is relatively unexplored in African immigrants with non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

Design: Systematic Mixed Studies review.

Cross-cultural applicability of the Self-Care Self-Efficacy Scale in a multi-national study.

Aim: The Self-Care Self-Efficacy Scale (SCSES) was newly developed as a self-report measure for self-care self-efficacy for chronic illness. This study investigated its measurement equivalence (ME) in different cultural groups, including United States, China (Hong Kong), Italy, and Brazil.

Design: A multi-national study for cross-cultural validation of the Scale.

Cross-cultural assessment of the Self-Care of Chronic Illness Inventory: A psychometric evaluation.

Background: Self-care refers to behaviors that individuals adopt to prevent or maintain the stability of an illness (self-care maintenance), to monitor signs and symptoms (self-care monitoring), and to respond to signs and symptoms of an illness exacerbation (self-care management). A generic measure of self-care, the Self-Care of Chronic Illness Inventory, based on the Theory of Self-Care of Chronic Illness, was developed for use in individuals with any number and type of chronic conditions.

Objective: The current study investigated the measurement equivalence of the Self-Care of Chronic Illness Inventory in individuals from three different cultural groups.

Psychometric Testing of the Revised Self-Care of Heart Failure Index.

Background: Self-care is essential in people with chronic heart failure (HF). The process of self-care was refined in the revised situation specific theory of HF self-care, so we updated the instrument measuring self-care to match the updated theory. The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the revised 29-item Self-Care of Heart Failure Index (SCHFI).