Health care professionals' views towards self-management and self-management education for people with type 2 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Significant problems with patients engaging with diabetes self-management education (DSME) exist. The role of healthcare professionals (HCPs) has been highlighted, with a lack of enthusiasm, inadequate information provision and poor promotion of available programmes all cited as affecting patients' decisions to attend. However, little is known about HCPs' views towards DSME. This study investigates the views of HCPs towards self-management generally and self-management in the context of DSME more specifically.

Design

A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews to investigate HCPs views of type 2 diabetes self-management and DSME. Data were analysed thematically and emergent themes were mapped on to the constructs of Normalisation Process Theory (NPT).

SUBMITTER: Ross J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661639 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature