The Relationship Between the Self-confidence in Clean Urinary Intermittent Catheterisation and Self-efficacy of Home Care Patients

Background: Home care patients experience great difficulty in fulfilling their daily activities. One of these difficulties is related to urinary excretion. It is necessary for individuals to possess self-efficacy as well as self-confidence in order to be able to perform self-administered clean intermittent catheterisation (CIC).

Aims: The present study aims to determine the relationship between the self-confidence and self-efficacy of home care patients in CIC.

Method: The data were collected from patients receiving home care services from a hospital in eastern Turkey between November 2022 and February 2023. The study data were collected online via google forms. No sample selection was made and the entire population was included in the study (372). The study was completed with 240 patients.

Results: A significant positive correlation was found between the scores obtained from the self-confidence and self-efficacy inventories for CIC. It was found that the self-efficacy total score had an effect size of 66% on self-confidence inventories for CIC. In addition, age, education level and working status also affect self-efficacy.

Conclusions: In the present study, it was concluded that the level of self-confidence affects the level of self-efficacy in self-catheterisation. The success rate of catheterisation increases in parallel with self-confidence.