Does the Partners in Health scale allow meaningful comparisons of chronic condition self-management between men and women? Testing measurement invariance.

There is a lack of well-validated generic instruments, including investigation into gender variability, for measuring chronic condition self-management behaviours. Lower education levels were found to connect with poorer knowledge of health condition and treatment. Mental health problems attenuated ability to cope with the effect of the condition. Findings can facilitate the development of better tailored interventions for self-management of patients' chronic condition/s.