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PROMIS Self-Efficacy

PROMIS. "General Self-Efficacy and Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Conditions" scoring manual.

Key findings used in wiki

  • PROMIS measures self-efficacy as a family of related constructs — general self-efficacy, and specific self-efficacy for managing emotions, symptoms, daily activities, social interactions, and medications and treatments.
  • Higher T-scores mean more confidence that the person can act on the relevant domain, not merely that they are doing well in it.
  • The design separates confidence-to-act from outcomes, because a caregiver can feel effective while still being strained, or feel overwhelmed while still producing good outcomes — and those two patterns need different kinds of support.
  • In GiveCare's methodology pages, this supports treating positive capacity as a real, measurable dimension distinct from burden, and anchors the claim that daily-activities and managing-medications confidence is a specific construct rather than general optimism.