State of the art: understanding and integration of the social context in diabetes care.

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 effec

SUBMITTER: de Wit M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027907 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature