Mediating role of self-care in predicting self-control and outcome expectations based on health anxiety in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Abstract

Irritable bowel syndrome is one of the most expensive diseases of the digestive system that causes intestinal dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediator role of self-care in predicting self-control and outcome expectations based on health anxiety in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.Research

The current research is descriptive and path analysis type. The statistical population of this research was made up of all patients with irritable bowel syndrome who referred to medical centers in Tehran. The sampling of the current research is purposeful and 200 patients with irritable bowel syndrome completed the research questionnaires. Research tools included Tobert and Glasgow's self-care questionnaire, Tanji's self-control questionnaire, Vosichki et al.'s outcome expectations questionnaire, Salkoskis and Warwick's health anxiety questionnaire. SPSS-26 and AMOS software were used for data analysis.

The results showed that health anxiety predicts both directly and through the mediation of self-care, self-restraint and expectation of outcome in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Also, self-care predicts self-control in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Self-care predicts expected outcomes in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.

As a result, it is recommended that every hospital has a health psychologist as a person who can teach patients how to control anger, courage, skills in saying no, or even training to deal with stressful situations so that they can live a just life. Use these skills.