Self-Care Inventory

The Self-care Inventory (SCI) was developed by Dr. Luciani and Prof. Ausili at University of Milano-Bicocca, and Prof. Riegel to reflect self-care of the General Adult Population.

We used the core concepts of the Self-care of Chronic Illness Theory focusing the questions on general health behaviors used by people regardless of their health status. Specifically, we propose that since self-care is used in ill and healthy states, everyone undertakes some level of health-promoting self-care every day.

We recommend using the Self-care Inventory with the Self-care Self-efficacy scale (10 items) modified for the General Adult Population. Self-care self-efficacy is not a part of self-care, but a factor that we have found in many other studies as strongly influencing self-care. Self-care self-efficacy reflects confidence in one’s ability to perform and persist in performing self-care.