'It's a Dance Between Managing Both': a qualitative study exploring perspectives of persons with knee osteoarthritis and type 2 diabetes mellitus on the impact of osteoarthritis on diabetes management and daily life.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and knee osteoarthritis (OA) commonly co-occur and epidemiologic studies suggest concomitant symptomatic knee OA increases the risk of T2DM complications. We sought to explore the experiences and perspectives of individuals' living with both symptomatic knee OA and T2DM, with a focus on the impact of OA on T2DM management and daily life.

Design

We conducted qualitative semistructured telephone interviews with persons living with T2DM and knee OA. We inductively coded and analysed interview transcripts, informed by interpretative description.

Setting

We recruited participants from a community arthritis self-management programme and an academic hospital's family medicine clinic in Ontario, Canada.

Participants

We included 18 part

SUBMITTER: King LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9639074 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature