The Use of a Digital Self-Care Platform in The Control of Diabetes in People With Diabetes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Self Care ◽  
Control Of Diabetes

scholarly journals Taking control of diabetes: child and adolescent perspectives on the evolution of self-care

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noshin Khan
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emotional Challenges ◽  
Paediatric Hospital ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Control Of Diabetes ◽  
Canada Data

This qualitative study employed an ethnographic approach to explore perspectives of children and adolescents on diabetes self-care. Their knowledge of diabetes and feelings about having the disease was also addressed. Rooted in the new sociological approach that acknowledges children’s right to participate in issues that concern them, forty eight paediatric patients between the ages of five and eighteen years participated in individual interviews. Participants were recruited from a diabetes outpatient clinic within the largest paediatric hospital in Canada. Data were coded using McCracken’s (1988) method of analysis. This paper presents a focused analysis of three major themes: self-care, knowledge and feelings. In-depth analyses of these integrated themes provided a rich understanding of how children and adolescents with diabetes come to accept their disease and how the process of self-care evolves over time. Despite the emotional challenges and complexity of managing diabetes, children and adolescents spoke of a resolve and readiness to obtain more knowledge about their disease. This paper describes the process of diabetes self-care from the perspectives of children and adolescents and offers suggestions for clinical practice and future research.

scholarly journals Implications of diabetes self-management education in metabolic control

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Ana Laura López González
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Control ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Poor Control ◽  
Reference Framework ◽  
Control Of Diabetes ◽  
Treatment Of Diabetes ◽  
Diabetes Educators

Diabetes is a chronic, progressive and disabling disease that affects millions of people around the world, with a high mortality rate derived from poor control. The paradigm of the treatment of diabetes has shifted to focus on empowering the person with diabetes to manage the disease successfully and to improve their quality of life. Diabetes self-management education, or DSME, is a process where people with diabetes gain the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions, modify their behaviour and to self-manage, in collaboration with health personnel, successfully the disease and its related conditions. To achieve these goals a structured educational program is used, in 4 stages which include assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation; to carry on this program, the model of the seven self-care behaviours known as AADE7®, developed by the American Association of Diabetes Educators, is used as a frame of reference. The objective of this paper is to analyse the components of the education program for diabetes self-care as well as its reference framework, the AADE7® model, and its importance in the metabolic control of diabetes.

scholarly journals Taking control of diabetes: child and adolescent perspectives on the evolution of self-care

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noshin Khan
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emotional Challenges ◽  
Paediatric Hospital ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Control Of Diabetes ◽  
Canada Data

This qualitative study employed an ethnographic approach to explore perspectives of children and adolescents on diabetes self-care. Their knowledge of diabetes and feelings about having the disease was also addressed. Rooted in the new sociological approach that acknowledges children’s right to participate in issues that concern them, forty eight paediatric patients between the ages of five and eighteen years participated in individual interviews. Participants were recruited from a diabetes outpatient clinic within the largest paediatric hospital in Canada. Data were coded using McCracken’s (1988) method of analysis. This paper presents a focused analysis of three major themes: self-care, knowledge and feelings. In-depth analyses of these integrated themes provided a rich understanding of how children and adolescents with diabetes come to accept their disease and how the process of self-care evolves over time. Despite the emotional challenges and complexity of managing diabetes, children and adolescents spoke of a resolve and readiness to obtain more knowledge about their disease. This paper describes the process of diabetes self-care from the perspectives of children and adolescents and offers suggestions for clinical practice and future research.

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