Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between health beliefs, self-efficacy, hope, and psychological self care behaviors of patients with depressive disorders. The number of sample was 200 patients with depressive disorders at Psychiatric clinic of The Fourth Mental Health Center. The instruments were the Psychological Self-Care Behavior Questionnaire, the Health Belief Questionnaire, the Self-efficacy Questionnaire, and the Hope Questionnaire. The reliability of the instrument were .82, .78, .80 and .84 respectively. Data was analyzed using frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation, Pearsons Product Moment Correlation and Stepwise Multiple Regression. The results revealed that the mean score of health beliefs was at a high level whereas the mean score of self-efficacy, hope, and psychological self-care behaviors was at a moderate level. There was statistically significant low negative relationship between health beliefs and psychological self-care behaviors (r = -.151, p < .05), there was statistically significant low positive relationship between self-efficacy and psychological self-care behaviors (r= .331, p <.00), there was statistically significant low positive relationship between hope and psychological self-care behaviors (r-.232, p <.001). The results of stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that perceived health beliefs, self-efficacy and hope explained 17 percent (R [superscript 2] = .17) of variances of psychological self-care behaviors of patients with depressive disorders.