Perceived Self Efficacy among Patients with Psoriasis

Abstract

Anandha Ruby Jacob and Jesudoss I

Skin diseases are very common. Psoriasis vulgaris is a common inflammatory and hyper-proliferative skin disease. Self-efficacy refers to the patients that they belief that he / she can carry out behaviour necessary to reach a desired goal, even when a situation contains unpredictable and stressful elements. The functional component that serves as boon to them is self-care management support. The objective of the study is to assess the perceived self- efficacy by using self- efficacy of managing chronic disease – 6 items. A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used where 168 patients with psoriasis were selected for the study using consecutive sampling. The result was highlighted that there was a high behaviour noted for their self- efficacy to care for themselves.

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