The most important life skills include self-efficacy, problem-solving, empathy, and coping strategies [ 4].
Interventions should focus on enhancing self-efficacy, problem solving, and social-environmental support to improve self-management of diabetes.
Self-efficacy, problem solving, and social-environmental support were independently associated with diet and exercise, increasing the variance accounted for by 23 and 19%, respectively.
The Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment (COPE) intervention provides promising evidence that the inclusion of educational materials that promote self-efficacy, problem solving, stress management, coping and communication can positively influence both mental and biological health outcomes in overweight adolescents [ 68].
CBCT interventions can vary widely in content such as incorporating techniques to enhance patient sense of self-efficacy, problem solve and increase motivation to adhere.
Regression results revealed that self-efficacy, problem-solving, and social-ecological factors increased the variance accounted for in all self-management variables (Table 1), and self-efficacy and problem-solving factors were independently associated with three self-management outcomes.
To compare the efficacy of problem-solving therapy (PST) with supportive therapy (ST) to improve targeted vision function (TVF) in age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Moreover, it has also been shown that problem-solving training in the workplace can increase problem-solving skills and problem-solving self-efficacy in the course of improving positive affect, job satisfaction and life satisfaction [ 51].
Alleviating the symptoms of depression through focusing on re-building a sense of agency through promoting self-efficacy and problem-solving approaches within a supportive group environment has been noted to help individual's cope with their depressive symptomatology [ 40, 41].
Factors influencing self-efficacy, such as problem-solving, pain management, exercise, modelling, social persuasion, weekly goal-setting and cognitive therapy, are interconnected.
People with higher education levels are more likely to have better general health, higher self-efficacy (due to stronger problem-solving and coping capacities arising from educational experience), more social support, and a greater capacity to seek, understand, and act on health messages that promote PA [ 6, 14, 36, 37].
