The Self-care of Hypertension Inventory (SC-HI) is a promising tool for measuring self-care and self-efficacy in patients with hypertension.
These findings support the conceptual basis of self-care in patients with HTN as a process of maintenance, monitoring, and management. The SC-HI confidence scale is promising as a measure of self-efficacy in self-care.
Dickson et al. (2016) studied this question.