ReviewDiabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association2020
State of the art: understanding and integration of the social context in diabetes care.
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- Parental Psychosocial Variables and Glycemic Control in T1D Pediatric Age: A Systematic Review.Current diabetes reports · 2024Pooled it
- Acceptability of community health worker and peer supported interventions for ethnic minorities with type 2 diabetes: a qualitative systematic review.Frontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare · 2024Pooled it
- Glycemic outcomes of a family-focused intervention for adults with type 2 diabetes: Main, mediated, and subgroup effects from the FAMS 2.0 RCT.Diabetes research and clinical practice · 2023Trial
- Association of resilience with hemoglobin A1c among youth and young adults with youth-onset diabetes.Annals of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Living with type 2 diabetes: stress and daily life challenges among adults in the Ashanti Region, Ghana.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Diabetes-Related Foot Ulcers: The Role of Informal Caregivers' Experiences and Needs Regarding Involvement in Multidisciplinary Team Treatment. A Qualitative Study.International wound journal · 2026Article
- Impact of a brief diabetes education on teachers' diabetes-related knowledge, attitude, and confidence: a nonrandomized school-based intervention study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Do household ties matter for diabetes awareness and self-care behaviors? Insights from the Hispanic community health study/study of latinos.Diabetes research and clinical practice · 2025Article
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- Nurse-led family-based approach in primary health care for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024Article
- Contextualizing risk, pathways, and solutions for the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and type 2 diabetes among inner-city African Americans: A qualitative analysis and development of a theoretical framework.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- The mediating role of psychological resilience in the effect of strength of religious faith on coping with stress in people with type 2 diabetes: A SEM analysis.Nursing open · 2024Article
- Putting person-centred psychosocial diabetes care into practice: two psychosocial care pathways based on outcome preferences of people with diabetes and healthcare professionals.BMJ mental health · 2024Article
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- Depression and associated factors among patients with type 2 diabetic mellitus in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Socioeconomic and behavioral determinants of non-compliance with physician referrals following community screening for diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia: a mixed-methods study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Current evidence for designing self-management support for underserved populations: an integrative review using the example of diabetes.International journal for equity in health · 2023Review
- Perspective of People With Type 2 Diabetes Toward Self-management: Qualitative Study Based on Web Crawler Data.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- A survey study of family members' encounters with healthcare services within the care of older people, psychiatric care, palliative care and diabetes care.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2022Article
- Assisting individuals with diabetes in the COVID-19 pandemic period: Examining the role of religious factors and faith communities.World journal of clinical cases · 2022Review
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Abstract
We review the past 25 years of research addressing challenges people living with diabetes experience in their daily lives related to social contexts, i.e. in their family, at work and in society at large, and identify research gaps. We found that young people with diabetes, as they develop through to adulthood, are exposed to considerable risks to their physical and mental health. Family-system interventions have had mixed outcomes. Research in this area would benefit from attention to ethnic/cultural diversity, and involving fathers and other family members. In adults with diabetes, social support relates to better diabetes outcomes. While family member involvement in care is likely to affect health and psychosocial outcomes of the person with diabetes, key elements and mediators of effective family interventions need to be identified. The challenges of diabetes management at work are under-researched; distress and intentional hyperglycaemia are common. When depression is comorbid with diabetes, there are increased work-related risks, e.g. unemployment, sickness absence and reduced income. Research to support people with diabetes at work should involve colleagues and employers to raise awareness and create supportive environments. Stigma and discrimination have been found to be more common than previously acknowledged, affecting self-care, well-being and access to health services. Guidance on stigma-reducing choice of language has been published recently. Resilience, defined as successful adaptation to adversity such as stigma and discrimination, requires studies relevant to the specific challenges of diabetes, whether at diagnosis or subsequently. The importance of the social context for living well with diabetes is now fully recognized, but understanding of many of the challenges, whether at home or work, is still limited, with much work needed to develop successful interventions.
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