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Self‐care activities among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A cross‐sectional study.
- Source :
- International Journal of Nursing Practice (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.); Dec2021, Vol. 27 Issue 6, p1-11, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Aims: This study investigated self‐care activities and identified their related factors in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: A cross‐sectional study was conducted in Guangzhou, China, between September 2016 and February 2017, involving 202 Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Measures included the Summary of Diabetes Self‐Care Activities Questionnaire and Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire. Results: Self‐care activities in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were suboptimal overall. Foot care and blood sugar testing were the self‐care activities that were performed the least. One fifth of patients smoked. Some subscales of illness perceptions, receiving health education on diabetes, employment status, education level, body mass index, age and time since type 2 diabetes mellitus diagnosis, were related to self‐care activities in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Conclusion: Health‐care providers and nurses should encourage greater engagement in self‐care activities in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, especially foot care and blood sugar testing. Illness perceptions may be used as a framework to guide interventions. Summary statement: What is already known about this topic? Diabetes is a global epidemic, and China has the largest number of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Self‐care activities are a key factor in preventing complications and maintaining long‐term health in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Illness perceptions are amendable to change by health‐care providers. What this paper adds? Self‐care activities in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were suboptimal; the least frequently performed self‐care activities were foot care and blood sugar testing, and one in five patients smoked.Some subscales of illness perceptions, receiving diabetes education, employment status, education level, body mass index, age and time since type 2 diabetes mellitus diagnosis, were related to self‐care activities in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The implications of this paper: Illness perceptions may be used as a framework to guide interventions aimed at promoting self‐care activities in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Interventions aimed at promoting self‐care activities should be tailored to the sociodemographic and clinical profiles of individual patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ACADEMIC medical centers
RESEARCH evaluation
CROSS-sectional method
BLOOD sugar monitoring
MOTIVATION (Psychology)
ONE-way analysis of variance
MULTIPLE regression analysis
FOOT care
DIABETES
TYPE 2 diabetes
ATTITUDES toward illness
NURSE-patient relationships
T-test (Statistics)
PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
EMPLOYMENT
AGE factors in disease
DISEASE duration
QUESTIONNAIRES
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CHI-squared test
PATIENT education
BODY mass index
PATIENT-professional relations
STATISTICAL correlation
DATA analysis software
HEALTH self-care
PEOPLE with diabetes
EDUCATIONAL attainment
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13227114
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Nursing Practice (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153994079
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ijn.12987