Investigation of the effect of motivational interview on self efficacy levels in adolescents with TYPE 1 diabetes mellitus

Aim: This study was conducted to investigate the effect of motivational interview technique based diabetes self-management education on self-efficacy, healthy lifestyle behavior and HbA1c levels in adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Method: This study was carried out on a semi-experimental design, pre-test post-test in one group. This study was carried out with 66 adolescent patients with type 1 diabetes between 11-18 years in Elazığ province center between February-July 2017. During the study, six sessions of motivational interview based diabetes self-management training were administered to eight groups of adolescents. Socio demographic questionnaire, Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Scale (HLBS) and Self-efficacy Scale (SES) were used in the data collection and they were applied before and after the training. Mean, percentile,corelation and t test were applied in the evaluation of the data. Findings:The average age of the participants was 14.75 ± 2.03, 56.1% of the participants were girls and 57.6% were high school students.There was a significant increase in the mean total score of the HLBS and SES scores (p <0.05). The mean HbA1c was found to decrease after motivational interview but not to make any significant difference (p> 0.05).Mean decline in HbA1c level after the motivational interview, but does not constitute a significant difference was found (p>0.05). Result: Motivational interviewing the management of type 1 diabetes, which increase self-efficacy, which enables the development of healthy lifestyle behaviors and has been shownto be effective in achieving metabolic control.