%0 Journal Article
%T Self
%A Dong Eun Jang
%A Juh Hyun Shin
%J Clinical Nursing Research
%@ 1552-3799
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1054773817740670
%X The incidence rate of middle-aged ischemic stroke patients has been increasing. Because of their high risk of recurrence, it is important for them to adhere to their self-care performance. The purpose of this study was to investigate predictors of self-care performance among middle-aged ischemic stroke patients. A descriptive correlational and cross-sectional survey design was used. About 140 participants who had been diagnosed with ischemic stroke within a year and visited neurological outpatients were investigated. Participants answered self-report questionnaires, the Secondary Stroke Prevention Knowledge Scale, the Health-Related Hardiness Scale, and the Subjective Self-Care Performance Scale. Hardiness, secondary-stroke-prevention knowledge, age, and stroke-diagnosis duration had statistically significant influences on self-care performance; hardiness had the largest effect. This study highlighted hardiness as the major predictor of self-care performance. To improve middle-aged ischemic stroke patients¡¯ self-care performance, nurses need an integrated approach that considers a patient¡¯s age, diagnosis duration, secondary-stroke-prevention knowledge, and, especially, hardiness
%K middle-aged stroke patient
%K self-care performance
%K hardiness
%K secondary-stroke-prevention knowledge
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1054773817740670