Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease: Self-Efficacy as a Factor in Readiness to Transition From Pediatric to Adult Medical Care

Adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) must develop self-efficacy and disease-management skills to transition successfully to adult medical care. This quantitative study explored whether self-efficacy, age, and gender were predictive of transition readiness of adolescents with SCD from pediatric to adult medical care. Eighty-seven individuals with SCD between the ages of 14 and 25 years completed an interview survey composed of demographic items, the Sickle Cell Self-Efficacy Scale (SCSES), and the Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire 4.1 (TRAQ 4.1). The regression analysis indicated that self-efficacy, gender, and age were statistically significant predictors of transition readiness. The adjusted R2 suggested that 38% of the variability in transition readiness could be predicted by the linear combination of these variables.

Author

• Baum, Dabney

Language

• en

Keyword

• transition
• self-efficacy
• sickle cell disease
• adolescent

Date created

• 2013

Type of Work

• Dissertation

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Special Education

Degree

• Ed.D.

Advisor

• Freund, Maxine B.

Committee Member(s)

• Dannels, Sharon
• Taymans, Juliana

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/3197xm305