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Review
Self, self-care and self-management concepts: implications
for self-management education
1Folorunso
Dipo Omisakin and 2Busisiwe Purity Ncama
1School
of Nursing, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College
Campus, Durban 4041,
South Africa.
2Associate
Professor, School of Nursing, University of KwaZulu-Natal,
Howard College Campus, Durban 4041,
*Corresponding Author E-mail:
omifod@yahoo.co.uk;
Tel: +27735836337
Received 30 October, 2011; Accepted 24 November, 2011
Principles imply fundamental truths upon which rest
knowledge, learning, and teaching. Knowledge and principles
are memorialized by and disseminated through words. The
denotative word meanings must be agreed upon in order that
principles and knowledge can be formally written and spoken
so that, the structure of scientific information can be
built. The terms self-concept, self-care, self-management
are significant in that they are foundational stones in the
structure of self-management education. To illustrate some
of the confusion related to them, randomly selected
definitions from literature are presented for the sake of
delineation.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the concepts: self,
self-care and self-management; an attempt to reach a better
understanding of the interplay between these concepts in the
self-management education process.
Keywords: Self, self-care, self-management,
education.
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