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self-care agency: a standalone construct

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Nursing theory

a person's developed capacity to take deliberate action to meet their own health-related self-care needs, as described in Orem's theory.

In nursing theory, self-care agency refers to a person's developed capacity to take deliberate action to meet their own health-related self-care needs, as described in Orem's theory. This meaning comes from Kearney (1979) in Research in Nursing & Health.[1]

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References

Kearney, B. Y., & Fleischer, B. J. (1979). Development of an Instrument to Measure Exercise of Self‐care Agency. Research in Nursing & Health, 2(1), 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1002/nur.4770020105

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