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Kukafka R, Jin X, Li Y, Wang H, Yang D, Zhang Z, He X, Liao J, Chen W, Gong N. Perspective of People With Type 2 Diabetes Toward Self-management: Qualitative Study Based on Web Crawler Data. J Med Internet Res 2023; 25:e39325. [PMID: 36729569 PMCID: PMC9936364 DOI: 10.2196/39325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2022] [Revised: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The diabetes disease burden in China is heavy, and medical standards such as diabetes guidelines are the core reference guidelines for diabetes management for health care providers and patients. However, patients' guideline compliance is too low, which correlates with the gap between guidelines and patients' self-management needs. Incorporating patient needs into the guideline development would reduce this gap. OBJECTIVE We sought to capture the needs of patients with diabetes for self-management in everyday situations and to clarify the contradictions and misalignments between medical standards, such as guidelines, and patient needs. METHODS This study collected crawler-based data from 4 online health communities. We selected 1605 text records collected from Chinese patients with diabetes between March 2020 and July 2020 for analysis. The text analysis applied grounded theory to separate issues that concerned patients into 3 themes, 7 subthemes, and 25 entries. RESULTS Altogether, 69.03% (1108/1605) of texts were related to issues concerning disease treatment (theme B) and mainly inquired about medication use (B2 and B3; 686/1108, 61.91%), including medication choice, change in medication administration, side effects, and postmedication effects. In addition, 222 (N=1605, 13.8%) texts (theme A) concerned the explanation of disease etiology and knowledge of diabetes, and 275 (N=1605, 17.1%) texts (theme C) discussed lifestyle changes and various restrictions on life brought about by the disease. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest an urgent need to improve diabetes health education and guideline development strategies and to develop health management strategies from a patient perspective to bridge the misalignment between patient needs and current medical standards.
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- Department of Social Medicine of School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Social Medicine of School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Nursing, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Nursing, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Nursing, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Medical Statistics & Epidemiology, Sun Yat-sen Global Health Institute, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Nursing, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Nursing, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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Namdar A, Karimi M, Vahidi M, Jouybari L, Emami Z, Ranjbar H. Shocked to happy: Experiences of Iranian diabetics in reaction to the bad news of the diagnosis. ACTA FACULTATIS MEDICAE NAISSENSIS 2021. [DOI: 10.5937/afmnai38-28720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Diagnosis of a chronic disease like type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is frequently shocking for patients, which influences their lives. Getting aware of bad news such as obtaining a chronic illness diagnosis is a sensitive issue in patients' lives. Conversely, reactions to the reception of a diagnosis of diabetes are often varied for a few reasons. To manage the diseases through care planning, the identification and modification of the causes of various reactions are necessary. The aim of the present survey was to investigate the reaction of diabetics to the reception of diabetes diagnosis and its possible reasons. In this qualitative study, in-depth interviews were used. Furthermore, traditional content analysis of semi-structured interviews was conducted using a qualitative strategy with 20 individuals with type 2 diabetes. The purposeful sampling approach was employed for recruiting the participants. Eleven male and nine female participants having type 2 diabetes had been transferred to the diabetes association of Iran for receiving consulting assistance in the areas of nutrition, psychology, and health care. Four categories of reactions have arisen from the investigation including behavioral, emotional, contextual, and cognitive reactions. Reactions to the prognosis of diabetes may be different for some reasons. The findings of the present investigation may be employed by health care providers to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of unusual and usual reactions, their causes, and the context in the early years after the diagnosis and planning care programs for disease management.
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Suglo JN, Evans C. Factors influencing self-management in relation to type 2 diabetes in Africa: A qualitative systematic review. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0240938. [PMID: 33091039 PMCID: PMC7580976 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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AIM Effective control of type 2 diabetes is predicated upon the ability of a person with diabetes to adhere to self-management activities. In order to develop and implement services that are locally relevant and culturally acceptable, it is critical to understand people's experiences of living with the disease. We synthesized qualitative research evidence describing the views and experiences of persons with type 2 diabetes in Africa regarding diabetes self-management. METHODS Five data bases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsychINFO, SCOPUS and CINAHL) were searched for qualitative studies published between the year 2000 and December 2019. After study selection, the included papers were critically appraised using an established tool. The data were extracted, and findings were coded and analysed to identify descriptive and analytical themes using a thematic synthesis approach. This review was registered in the international prospective register of systematic reviews (PROSPERO) with registration number CRD42018102255. RESULTS Sixteen studies were included in this review, representing a total of 426 participants across seven countries. Synthesis of findings produced six analytical themes. The diagnosis of diabetes triggered a range of emotions and revealed culturally specific understandings of the condition that negatively affected self-management practices. People with diabetes seeking health care at hospitals encountered several challenges including long waiting times and costly diabetes treatment. Family support and a state of acceptance of the condition were identified as facilitators to diabetes self-management. CONCLUSION Effective self-management of type 2 diabetes is a challenge for most persons with diabetes in Africa. There is an urgent need for culturally appropriate education strategies and restructuring of the health system to facilitate self-management of diabetes.
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- School of Health Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Gonzalez Rodriguez H, Wallace DD, Barrington C. Contextualizing Experiences of Diabetes-Related Stress in Rural Dominican Republic. QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 2019; 29:857-867. [PMID: 30451066 DOI: 10.1177/1049732318807207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is changing the burden of disease across Latin America. In this formative, qualitative study, we explored experiences of T2D diagnosis and management among adults in rural Dominican Republic. We conducted 28 in-depth interviews (12 men, 16 women) and used inductive analysis to explore the emotional burden of T2D and identify coping strategies. We found that stress relating to T2D began at diagnosis and persisted throughout management. Stress was produced by concerns about healthy food and medication access, fears about illness-induced injury, and the cyclical process of experiencing stress. Participants identified diabetes care and free medication services as external stress-reducers. Internally, participants' mitigated stress by not thinking about diabetes (" no dar mente"). Our study highlights the importance of a contextualized understanding of diabetes-related stress and the need for individual, clinic, and community-level interventions to reduce stressors and improve health outcomes among adults with T2D.
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- 1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- 1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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Dimova ED, Ward A, Swanson V, Evans JMM. Patients' Illness Perceptions of Type 2 Diabetes: A Scoping Review. Curr Diabetes Rev 2019; 15:15-30. [PMID: 29283073 DOI: 10.2174/1573399814666171227214845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Revised: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND People's personal perceptions, or illness representations, of type 2 diabetes can act as barriers to successful self-management. INTRODUCTION Understanding patients' subjective perceptions of type 2 diabetes can aid the design of evidence-based care and appropriate educational programmes. This scoping review provides a narrative account of previous knowledge of patients' illness representations of type 2 diabetes. METHODS Quantitative and qualitative studies that explored patients' illness representations of type 2 diabetes, as defined by Leventhal's Common Sense Model, were included. RESULTS Thirty four studies were identified for this review, but only 14 studies were carried out in a general population of people with diabetes. Illness representations varied across study populations. While it is clear that the perceptions of ethnic minorities and marginalised groups are embedded in their historical and cultural backgrounds, it is also important to understand the views of the wider population. CONCLUSION The review highlights the need for self-management interventions to reflect the target population's representations of type 2 diabetes in order to inform interventions and clinical practice.
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- Elena D Dimova
- Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Buchmann M, Wermeling M, Lucius-Hoene G, Himmel W. Experiences of food abstinence in patients with type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study. BMJ Open 2016; 6:e008907. [PMID: 26739724 PMCID: PMC4716189 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE People with type 2 diabetes often report pressure to abstain from many of life's pleasures. We tried to reconstruct these patients' sense of pressure to better understand how people with diabetes make sense of, and integrate, these feelings into their life. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A secondary analysis of narrative interviews with 14 patients with type 2 diabetes who are part of a website project. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Grounded theory-based analysis of narrative interviews, consisting of open, axial and selective coding. RESULTS People with type 2 diabetes felt obliged to give up many pleasures and live a life of abstinence. They perceived a pressure to display a modest culinary lifestyle via improved laboratory test results and weight. Their verbal efforts to reassure and distance themselves from excessiveness indicate a high moral pressure. With regard to the question of how to abstain, food and behaviour were classified into healthy and unhealthy. Personal rules sometimes led to surprising experiences of freedom. CONCLUSIONS People with diabetes have internalised that their behaviour is a barrier to successful treatment. They experience an intensive pressure to show abstinence and feel misjudged when their efforts have no visible effect. Taking into account this moral pressure, and listening to patients' personal efforts and strategies to establish healthy behaviours, might help to build a trusting relationship with healthcare providers.
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- Maike Buchmann
- Department of General Practice, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of General Practice, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Psychotherapy, Institute of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of General Practice, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany
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Gordon C, Walker M, Carrick-Sen D. Exploring risk, prevention and educational approaches for the non-diabetic offspring of patients with type 2 diabetes--a qualitative study. J Adv Nurs 2013; 69:2726-37. [PMID: 23621406 DOI: 10.1111/jan.12162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIM To understand the knowledge and perceptions of type 2 diabetes and to explore preferable educational strategies in the non-diabetic offspring of patients with the disease. BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes is an increasingly prevalent disease with significant long-term consequences. Offspring of patients with type 2 diabetes have an increased risk of developing the disease compared with the general population. Previous studies have shown that offspring have a poor perception of their own risk. DESIGN A qualitative study was carried out using semi-structured one-to-one interviews. Analysis was completed using a structured framework approach. METHODS Research was carried out during January-March 2011 in the north east of UK. Six offspring of patients diagnosed with the disease were interviewed. RESULTS Participants balanced positive and negative aspects of their lifestyle behaviours to estimate their own risk. They had adequate knowledge of healthy lifestyle behaviours, but were uncertain about the long-term effects and seriousness of the disease and the role of inheritance. Behavioural changes at an individual level would only be motivated by an event, which would impact on their own health. Participants believed that 'fear'-based strategies to health promotion would be most effective to encourage behaviour change. CONCLUSION Knowledge of individual risk and why diabetes was serious was limited and variable. The health behaviours of this at-risk group were complex. Nurses engaged in the care of at-risk individuals must take this complexity into account when developing and implementing multi-faceted strategies to improve awareness.
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- Charlotte Gordon
- Clinical Research Facility, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Santos MAD, Marques LADS, Oliveira-Cardoso ÉAD, Mastropietro AP, Teixeira CRDS, Zanetti ML. Percepção de pacientes com diabetes mellitus tipo 1 sobre o transplante de células-tronco hematopoéticas. PSICOLOGIA: TEORIA E PESQUISA 2012. [DOI: 10.1590/s0102-37722012000400002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar a percepção de pacientes com diabetes mellitus tipo 1 acerca do transplante de células-tronco hematopoéticas (TCTH). Participaram do estudo 12 pacientes, com idades entre 16 e 24 anos. Foi aplicado um roteiro de entrevista semiestruturada antes e um ano após o TCTH. Os relatos foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo temática e agrupados em três categorias: impacto do adoecimento, vivência do TCTH e retomada do cotidiano. Os resultados evidenciaram que os participantes foram capazes de identificar ganhos e refletir sobre as perdas advindas dessa situação-limite. Puderam perceber possibilidades de se beneficiarem do TCTH e vislumbraram no transplante uma oportunidade para além das inevitáveis dificuldades e limitações impostas pela terapêutica.
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Balaminut T, Landim CAP, Becker TAC, Santos ECBD, Olivatto GM, Zanetti ML, Teixeira CRDS. Adaptação cultural e confiabilidade para o Brasil do Automated Telephone Disease Management: resultados preliminares. ACTA PAUL ENFERM 2012. [DOI: 10.1590/s0103-21002012005000024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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OBJETIVOS: Traduzir, adaptar culturalmente para o Brasil o ATDM Satisfaction Scales e avaliar a confiabilidade da versão adaptada em adultos brasileiros com DM. MÉTODOS: Estudo metodológico, cujo processo de adaptação cultural incluiu: tradução, comitê de juízes, retrotradução, análise semântica e pré-teste. Este estudo incluiu uma amostra de 39 adultos brasileiros com DM cadastrados em um programa educativo do interior paulista. RESULTADOS: A versão adaptada do instrumento mostrou boa aceitação com fácil compreensão dos itens pelos participantes, com confiabilidade variando entre 0,30 e 0,43. CONCLUSÃO: Após a análise das propriedades psicométricas e finalização do processo de validação no País, o instrumento poderá ser utilizado por pesquisadores brasileiros, possibilitando ser comparado com outras culturas.
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Wagner LC, Torres-González F, Geidel AR, King MB. Cuestiones existenciales en la esquizofrenia: percepción de portadores y cuidadores. Rev Saude Publica 2011; 45:401-8. [DOI: 10.1590/s0034-89102011000200019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2010] [Accepted: 09/24/2010] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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OBJETIVO: Examinar los temas y cuestiones existenciales del cotidiano de personas con esquizofrenia y de sus cuidadores. MÉTODOS: Estudio cualitativo con grupos focales. Fueron incluidos 146 sujetos con esquizofrenia (55% hombres) y 80 cuidadores (75% mujeres) que provenían de servicios primarios y secundarios de salud de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, España, Inglaterra y Venezuela. Cada grupo tenía de 6 a 10 participantes. Los datos fueron explorados por el proceso de análisis de contenido. RESULTADOS: Fueron identificadas cuatro cuestiones existenciales omnipresentes en los discursos: la necesidad de realización como persona y de encontrar un sentido en la vida; la necesidad de ser respetado y no sufrir discriminación; el conflicto decurrente de la pérdida de autonomía; la importancia de comprender la enfermedad y de reconocerse como enfermo. Las cuestiones existenciales aparecieron fuertemente conectadas a necesidades objetivas, como la falta de ocupación y trabajo, que generalmente resultan en una vida sin propósito y sentido. CONCLUSIONES: Hace falta desarrollar un nuevo tipo de cuidado en salud, en que la consideración por la persona con esquizofrenia y la valoración de su subjetividad sean tan importantes cuanto el tratamiento biológico, así como crear estrategias de promoción de la salud que comprendan mecanismos de inclusión laboral y combato al estigma.
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