575-P: Nigerian Patients with Noncommunicable Diseases Have Suboptimal Baseline Self-Efficacy Scores to Manage Chronic Diseases

Introduction 0.05). About 40% of all the patients manage their NCDs with medications alone, a trend that is similar in male and female patients (p0.05). While all the patients had a relatively lower self-efficacy scores under regular exercise scale (52-55%) and manage disease symptoms scale (53-55%), they tended towards higher self-efficacy scores under getting assistance from community, family, and friends (79-80%) and communication with attending physicians (81-85%). Conclusion: Nigeria patients with NCDs at tertiary level institution clinics are less than optimal in disease self-management care. The observed sub-optimal self-efficacy levels might be a contributing factor to high premature NCD deaths in this population. It is recommended that this study population will benefit from introduction and implementation of disease self-management programme in the healthcare system. Disclosure C.E. Ezenwaka: None.