| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄醫學院 === 護理學研究所 === 84 === The purpose of this study were : (1) to explore the level of
uncertainty in Diabetic patients, (2) to determine the
relationship between uncertainty and correlated factors such as
demographics, symptom patten, social support and diabetic
knowledge and(3) to determine the predictors of uncertainty.
Instruments included: (1) Mishel's Uncertainty in Illness Scale
with twofactors: ambiguity and complexity, (2) The Inventory of
Social Supportive Behavior Scale, (3) Diabetic KnowledgeScale
and (4) Symptom pattern Scale.The sample consisted of 61 men and
64 women, ranging in age from 32 to 79 years. The findingsof
the study includes that (1) the level of DM patients'uncertainty
were moderate, and the level of ambiguity were higher
thancomplexity, (2) there was a significant postive
relationship between uncertainty and age, uncertainty andblood
sugar level, (3) there was a significant negative relationship
betweenuncertainty and education level,uncertainty and diabetic
knowledge, uncetaintyand social support, (4) althoughthere was
no significant negative relationshipbetween uncertainty and
symptompattern but there was a significant negativerelationship
between complexity and symptom pattern, (5) sex, marital status,
social status were correlated with uncertainty and (6) results
from the regression analysis indicated that 31% of the variance
in uncertainty were explained by diabetic knowledge, age and
marital status interaction; 28% of the variance in ambiguity
were explained byeducation level, age and marital status
intreration; 20% of the variance in complexity was explained by
diabetic knowledge. Based on these findings suggestion that
(1)to provide individualized nursing teaching for diabetes, (2)
to add information about how to deal withuncertainty regarding
illness trajectory for diabetic teaching program.
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