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ReviewJournal of diabetes research2016

Working Together to Promote Diabetes Control: A Practical Guide for Diabetes Health Care Providers in Establishing a Working Alliance to Achieve Self-Management Support.

Allan Jones, Michael Vallis, Debbie Cooke, François Pouwer

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Review in Journal of diabetes research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Language matters: Guidance for person-centred diabetes communication in Ireland.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2026
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  5. Healthcare workers' views on type 2 diabetes mellitus management at selected clinics in Mthatha.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2024
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  8. Sweet as Sugar-How Shared Social Identities Help Patients in Coping with Diabetes Mellitus.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Allan JonesInstitute of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
Michael VallisCDHA Behaviour Change Institute, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4R2.
Debbie CookeSchool of Health Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK.
François PouwerCentre of Research on Psychology in Somatic Diseases (CoRPS), Department of Medical & Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, 5037 AB Tilburg, Netherlands.
Dalhousie University · CATilburg University · NLUniversity of Southern Denmark · DKUniversity of Surrey · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The quality of the "patient-carer" relationship is the foundation of self-management support and has been shown to influence treatment outcome in relation to psychological and somatic illness, including diabetes. It has long been accepted within applied psychology that the quality of the client-therapist relationship--termed the working alliance--is of central importance to treatment outcome and may account for a significant degree of the overall treatment effect. Diabetes healthcare providers have recently expressed a need for further training in communication techniques and in the psychological aspects of diabetes. Could we take a page from the psychological treatment manual on working alliance in therapy to guide the diabetes healthcare provider in their role of supporting the person with diabetes achieve and maintain better metabolic control? This paper examines the role of the working alliance in diabetes care and offers a practical guide to the diabetes healthcare provider in establishing a working alliance with the person with diabetes in managing diabetes.

Indexed as

Health PersonnelPhysician-Patient RelationsDiabetes MellitusHumansSelf CareTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID26682229
PMCPMC4670648
OpenAlexW1589806581

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