Self-Care Maintenance Scale | Factor Loading | |||
Health-promoting behaviors | ||||
How often or routinely do you… | ||||
1. Make sure to get enough sleep? | 0.50 | |||
3. Do physical activity (e.g., take a brisk walk, use the stairs)? | 0.65 | |||
4. Eat a balanced and varied diet? | 0.81 | |||
7. Do something to relieve stress (e.g., meditation, yoga, music)? | 0.59 | |||
Illness-related behaviors | ||||
2. Try to avoid getting sick (e.g., flu shot, wash your hands)? | 0.54 | |||
5. See your healthcare provider for routine health care (e.g., routine check-ups, dentist, gynecologist)? | 0.60 | |||
6. If/when prescribed, take prescribed medicines without missing a dose? | 0.50 | |||
Self-Care Monitoring Scale | Factor Loading | |||
How often or routinely do you… | ||||
9. Monitor your health status? | 0.70 | |||
10. If/when prescribed, monitor for medicine side-effects? | 0.63 | |||
11. Pay attention to changes in how you feel? | 0.82 | |||
12. Monitor whether you tire more than usual doing normal activities? | 0.85 | |||
13. Monitor for symptoms? | 0.87 | |||
Self-Care Management Scale | Factor Loading | |||
Autonomous behaviors | ||||
When you have symptoms, how likely are you to… | ||||
15. Change what you eat or drink to make the symptom decrease or go away? | 0.55 | |||
16. Change your activity level (e.g., slow down, rest)? | 0.53 | |||
17. Take a medicine to make the symptom decrease or go away? | 0.28 | |||
20. Did the things you did make you feel better? | 0.56 | |||
Consulting behaviors | ||||
18. Tell your healthcare provider about the symptom at the next office visit? | 0.68 | |||
19. Call your healthcare provider for guidance? | 0.48 | |||
Factors | Illness related behaviors | Self-Care monitoring | Autonomous behaviors | Consulting behaviors |
Health promoting behaviors | 0.56 | 0.45 | 0.41 | 0.15 |
Illness related behaviors | 0.43 | 0.31 | 0.37 | |
Self-Care monitoring | 0.69 | 0.29 | ||
Autonomous behaviors | 0.47 |