To examine how outcome and self-efficacy expectations for medication management and self-monitoring of patients with diabetes vary by different indicators of a pharmacist-patient relationship.
A person who has indicated, for example, to have a positive attitude and sufficient self-efficacy expectations for a change in dietary intake will be advised to choose for a change in dietary behavior.
However, the study was also able to show that these companies have a high outcome expectation with respect to WHP and that it can be utilized as a resource for improving a low level of efficacy expectation or for increasing WHP willingness at the management level.
Social Learning Theory makes the critical distinction between outcome and efficacy expectations, and the evidence in support of verbal persuasion, modelling and mastery experiences for enhancing self-efficacy[ 18, 19].
Nieuwenhuijsen et al. suggested that positive recovery expectations could represent the self-efficacy expectations of employees [ 39].
The predictors for return at 24 months corrected age include marital status, race, gestational age of the infant, maternal intelligence, and efficacy expectations.
We think that patient expectations are a multifaceted and complex construct, which is recognized in several reviews [ 20, 38, 39], Kravitz [ 39] for example distinguishes probability (i.e. the estimated probability that an event will occur) and value expectations (i.e. idealized expectations, hopes/wishes) whilst Bandura [ 18] distinguishes self efficacy expectations and outcome expectations.
SES = Self-Efficacy Scale 0-2000), low scores indicate low efficacy expectations.
Four studies measured only self efficacy expectations [ 29, 30, 32, 36], twelve studies solely addressed outcome expectations.
