Self-Efficacy and the Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease on Patients' Daily Lives.
Jessica L SheehanLaVana Greene-HiggsLinnea SwansonPeter D R HigginsSarah L KreinAkbar K WaljeeSameer D SainiJeffrey A BerinsteinJessica L MellingerJohn D PietteKen ResnicowShirley Cohen-MekelburgPublished in: Clinical and translational gastroenterology (2023)
Patients with IBD report low confidence in managing stress and emotion and managing symptoms and disease. Higher self-efficacy in these domains was associated with lower IBD daily life impact. Self-management tools that promote self-efficacy in managing these domains have the potential to reduce IBD's daily life impact.