“…Self-care theory includes three elements: self-care requisites, self-care agency, and self-care (Denyes, Orem, & SozWiss, 2001). Self-care requisites represent the internal or external factors that affect a person's abilities to care for self (Denyes, Orem, & SozWiss, 2001;Wilson, Mood, Risk, & Kershaw, 2003), and comprise the following ten basic conditioning factors: "Age; gender; developmental state; health state; sociocultural orientation; health care system factors, for example, medical diagnostic and treatment modalities; family system factors; pattern of living, including activities regularly engaged in; environmental factors; and resource availability and adequacy" (Denyes, Orem, & SozWiss, 2001;Orem, 2001, p. 245).…”