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Social Cognitive Theory To Type 1 Diabetes

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Application of Social Cognitive Theory to Type 1 Diabetes
The proposed research aims to address the following questions: (1) do students diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus during college routinely check blood glucose levels more or less frequently than individuals diagnosed prior to attendance, (2) and is peer awareness a key determinant of trends in self-reported HbA1c among those diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus during college? In order to answer these questions and bridge gaps in the literature, Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) will be applied. The SCT emphasizes the relationship between personal factors, environmental factors, and behavior (Glanz, Rimer, Viswanath, & Orleans, 2008). More specifically, the SCT can clarify the contributions of the college environment and peer interactions to explain certain health behaviors. Two limitations of the SCT are the absence of steps to quantify behavior change and its broad categorical approach to complex concepts (Glanz et al., 2008). Nevertheless, this theory is more suited to answer the proposed questions than other commonly used models such …show more content…

The Health Belief Model (HBM) is another model that is commonly used to study disease. However, its application to this proposal is limited by the focus on personal perception of disease rather than interpersonal and environmental issues that determine disease management (Rosenstock & Hochbaum, 2010). Similarly, the Integrated Behavioral Model (IBM) is also commonly used to determine the reasoning for behavior. Although IBM addresses the attitude of an individual toward a certain behavior, it relies on the exclusion of environmental variables and is thus, like the other models, less effective for this research than SCT (Glanz et al.,

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