impact of group psycho-education on self-efficacy in patients with intestinal stoma

Background: clinical studies on patients with stoma show that these people are the group who need several adaptations. it was found that self-efficacy, as a source of personal coping, can facilitate this process and make it easier to accept stoma and increases compatibility with it. this study aimed to investigate the effect of group psychoeducation on self- efficacy in patients with intestinal stoma in some of medical university hospitals of iran. methods: this study is a semi-experimental study. the study society was formed from patients with intestinal stoma who were interested to attend training sessions. a total of 24 eligible patients, who had the entrance criteria, were chosen by convenient sampling and were trained for 6 1-hour sessions in groups of 6 and 8. their efficacy was assessed before training, immediately after completion of the last session, and also 3 weeks later. results: the data analysis via repeated measure test showed that the mean amount of self-efficacy, before and after training, is significantly different (p < 0.05). the self-efficacy score, which was 59.37 before training, reached the score of 64.25 immediately after the training sessions and 68.50 3 weeks later. conclusions: the results showed that group psychoeducation was effective in increasing self-efficacy in patients with intestinal stoma. in fact, it was found that making patients doing group exchanges with people with similar problems improves their selfefficacy dramatically.