Table 4.

Internal consistency reliability of single factors and overall SCODI scales

	Single factor reliability	Multidimensional model based reliability
Self-care maintenance		0.81
Health promoting exercise behaviours	0.85
Disease prevention behaviours	0.79
Health promoting behaviours	0.77
Illness related behaviours	0.95
Self-care monitoring		0.84
Body listening	0.72
Symptom recognition	0.99
Self-care management		0.86
Autonomous self-care management behaviours	0.89
Consultative self-care management behaviours	0.77
Self-care confidence		0.89
Task-specific self-care confidence	0.90
Persistence self-care confidence	0.88