Division of Disease Control and Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Oral Growth and Development, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan.
Oral Dis. 2010 Nov;16(8):747-52. doi: 10.1111/j.1601-0825.2010.01703.x.
In clinical practice, self-efficacy refers to how certain a patient feels about his or her ability to take the necessary action to improve the indicators and maintenance of health. It is assumed that the prognosis for patient behaviour can be improved by assessing the proficiency of their self-efficacy through providing psychoeducational instructions adapted for individual patients, and promoting behavioural change for self-care. Therefore, accurate assessment of self-efficacy is an important key in daily clinical preventive care. The previous research showed that the self-efficacy scale scores predicted patient behaviour in periodontal patients and mother's behaviour in paediatric dental practice. Self-efficacy belief is constructed from four principal sources of information: enactive mastery experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and physiological and affective states. Thus, self-efficacy can be enhanced by the intervention exploiting these sources. The previous studies revealed that behavioural interventions to enhance self-efficacy improved oral-care behaviour of patients. Therefore, assessment and enhancement of oral-care specific self-efficacy is important to promote behaviour modification in clinical dental practice. However, more researches are needed to evaluate the suitability of the intervention method.
在临床实践中，自我效能感是指患者对自己采取必要行动来改善健康指标和维持健康的能力的信心程度。通过为患者提供个体化的心理教育指导，并促进自我护理行为的改变，评估其自我效能感的熟练程度，可以改善患者的预后行为。因此，准确评估自我效能感是日常临床预防保健的重要关键。先前的研究表明，自我效能感量表评分可以预测牙周病患者的行为和儿科牙科实践中母亲的行为。自我效能信念是由四个主要信息来源构建而成：实际掌握经验、替代经验、口头说服和生理和情感状态。因此，可以通过利用这些来源的干预措施来增强自我效能感。先前的研究表明，增强自我效能感的行为干预措施可以改善患者的口腔保健行为。因此，评估和增强口腔保健特定的自我效能感对于促进临床牙科实践中的行为改变很重要。然而，需要进行更多的研究来评估干预方法的适用性。
