Table 2 Strategies adopted to enhance participants’ self-efficacy and outcome expectation of performing self-management behaviours
Sources of information of self-efficacy | Strategies adopted | Programme components |
|---|---|---|
Mastery experience | - Establish a short-term goal and a realistic action plan. - Assist to break down difficult tasks into simple steps. - Practice the use of core self-management skills. - Revise the action plan if necessary. - Encourage to record the implementation of the action plan. | HV HV, GS GS GS, PF HV, GS, PF |
Vicarious experience | - Guide the viewing of videos about experience sharing. - Facilitate experience sharing among the group. | HV, GS GS |
Verbal persuasion | - Acknowledge incremental successes. - Provide positive reinforcement. - Reinforce the importance of ‘taking an active role’. | HV, GS, PF HV, GS, PF HV, GS, PF |
Physiological & emotional arousal | - Assist to reinterpret negative physiological and emotional states. | HV, GS, PF |
Outcome expectation | - Assess and reinforce the positive outcomes valued by the participants after performing stroke self-management behaviours. | HV, GS, PF |