TY - JOUR TI - Diabetes Health Promotion Self-Care Scale: Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version AB - This study was carried out to put the Diabetes Health Promotion Self-Care Scale for patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) into use for nursing and medical literature. The sample of this methodological design research consisted of 620 patients diagnosed with type 2 DM. The data were collected with Personal Information Form and the Diabetes Health Promotion Self-Care Scale. In the validity and reliability stage of the scale, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyzes, and structural equation modeling was used for the item analyzes, internal consistency, and structural validity. The statistical analysis showed that the reliability coefficient of the scale was Cronbach α=0.922. The sub-factors of the Diabetes Health Promotion Self-Care Scale consisting of 27 items and 7 sub-factors were determined as "Interpersonal Relationships", "Blood glucose self-monitoring", "Personal Health Responsibility", "Exercise", "Diet", "Adherence to the Recommended Regime", and "Foot Care". As a result of the analysis, the Diabetes Health Promotion Self-Care Scale was found as a valid and reliable scale to be applied to Turkish society. AU - SELEK, ALEV AU - altun, insaf AU - baydemir, canan AU - AYDIN, LEVENT AU - çetinarslan, berrin AU - demirhan, yeliz AU - canturk, zeynep AU - Peker, Ayfer AU - MERT, Selda AU - sözen, mehmet DO - 10.20515/otd.1003197 PY - 2022 JO - Osmangazi Tıp Dergisi VL - 44 IS - 3 SN - 1305-4953 SP - 414 EP - 427 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/1118965 ER -