Empowering healthier lifestyles: patterns of digital tool use, self-efficacy, and affective balance in IBD-patients and a community sample - Summary - MDSpire
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Empowering healthier lifestyles: patterns of digital tool use, self-efficacy, and affective balance in IBD-patients and a community sample
To explore how internet and digital empowerment, self-efficacy, and affective balance interact to support health-related personal strivings among IBD patients and a community sample.
Approach:
Participants: 308 participants (151 from a community sample and 157 with IBD) completed questionnaires assessing various psychological and health-related factors.
Analysis: Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used to identify subgroups, and ANCOVA was conducted for group comparisons adjusted for demographic and health-related covariates.
Key Findings:
Four latent profiles were identified: 'Highly Empowered Achievers' (n = 55), 'Moderately Empowered Strugglers' (n = 106), 'Balanced but IDT Avoiders' (n = 67), and 'Vulnerable and Disempowered' (n = 80).
Highly Empowered Achievers exhibited significantly higher life satisfaction, lower perceived stress, lower anxiety, and greater health goal realization compared to other groups.
Participants with IBD were more likely to belong to the Vulnerable and Disempowered group and less likely to be in the Highly Empowered Achievers group.
Interpretation:
Internet and digital empowerment, self-efficacy, and affective balance formed four latent profiles associated with subjective health and psychological well-being.
Limitations:
The study is cross-sectional, limiting causal inferences.
Further longitudinal studies are needed to evaluate causal relationships.
Conclusion:
Chronic disease management interventions could benefit from enhancing digital competencies and emotional coping resources.
by Blanka Festő, Beatrix Rafael, Ábel Molnár, Tamás Szűcs, Sára Imola Csuka, Sanela Tóth-Njers, Anett Dávid, Barbara Horvát, Viola Sallay, Tamás Molnár, Tamás Martos
