Download or read book Importance of Social Support in Improvement of Quality of Life of Diabetic Patients written by Andrea Bukovska and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: Diabetes mellitus is not only medical, but also social problem. As a chronic disease with long term course and serious outcomes means a conflicting, serious, stressful and burning situation which negatively affects quality of life. In this work we are showing importance of social support for improving the quality of life for a diabetic patients.Aim: Determine the importance of different types of social support to improve the quality of life of diabetic patients using the new tool DIASSQL 23/20 (Diabetes Social Support Quality of Life 23/20) drawn up for the implementation of the milestones of the research.Method: In the first part we are describing epidemiologic course of diabetes mellitus. In the second part we are determining emotional, informational, instrumental and evaluating social support, provision, admission, perception, availability, obtainability of social support, level of social support in context of social needs. In the third part we are determining quality of life, aspects of quality of life and benefit of groups in system of quality of life. In fourth part we are focusing on research and the seven individual aims of the research and five hypothesis. We specify of the research, research models, methods of research, organization and analysis of the research in statistical program Statistical Package for Social Science SPSS. In the survey section, DIASSQL 23/20, we used the method of qualitative research in the form of a combined system of an anonymous questionnaire. Survey sample DIASSQL 23/20 completed of 160 respondents, 143 respondents participated in the survey. DIASSQL 23/20 contains 23 social support items, 20 qualiy of life items and 9 sociodemographic survey questions, which we have obtained together 17 303 informations. The results we processed by the software program Microsoft Excel, statistical software program Statistical Package for the Social Science SPSS and descriptive and inductively statistics into tables and graphs summarize in the discussion and suggested recommendations for practice.Results: We are evaluating the results of the research, appointing practical advantages and recommendations for the daily practice within the modern health education and application of the social work. We could show importance of social support in improving quality of life of diabetic patients. Social support is essential for improving the quality of life for diabetic patients and compensation of diabetes mellitus. New instrument DIASSQL 23/20 is suitable for use in the context of diabetology evidence-based and diabetes education. Will provide modern diabetology other options like even more to help diabetic patients who really need it.Discussion: Chronic disease causes significant interference in the daily lives of individuals. A diabetes mellitus for its pandemic character not only a crisis, stress and stress situation, but as a civilization, a chronic, metabolic, non-communicable diseases with long-term course, economic, psychological, social and health consequences of the deterioration of the overall quality of life and global problem. Namely negative impact on the life of individuals, families, groups, communities and of society. When challenging journey through life with diabetes mellitus significantly assisted by appropriate social support. It is depend not only the quality of social relationships and past experiences, as well as providers, whether from family, groups, communities in social networks, and by the volunteers and professional diabetes educators.

Download or read book Psychosocial Care for People with Diabetes written by Deborah Young-Hyman and published by American Diabetes Association. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychosocial Care for People with Diabetes describes the major psychosocial issues which impact living with and self-management of diabetes and its related diseases, and provides treatment recommendations based on proven interventions and expert opinion. The book is comprehensive and provides the practitioner with guidelines to access and prescribe treatment for psychosocial problems commonly associated with living with diabetes.

Download or read book Depression and Diabetes written by Wayne Katon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the multiple interrelationships between depression and various physical diseases. The WPA is providing an update of currently available evidence on these interrelationships by the publication of three books, dealing with the comorbidity of depression with diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Depression is a frequent and serious comorbid condition in diabetes, which adversely affects quality of life and the long-term prognosis. Co-occurrent depression presents peculiar clinical challenges, making both conditions harder to manage. Depression and Diabetes is the first book devoted to the interaction between these common disorders. World leaders in diabetes, depression and public health synthesize current evidence, including some previously unpublished data, in a concise, easy-to-read format. They provide an overview of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, medical costs, management, and public health and cultural implications of the comorbidity between depression and diabetes. The book describes how the negative consequences of depression in diabetes could be avoided, given that effective depression treatments for diabetic patients are available. Its practical approach makes the book ideal for all those involved in the management of these patients: psychiatrists, psychologists, diabetologists, general practitioners, diabetes specialist nurses and mental health nurses.

Download or read book Health Promotion in Health Care Vital Theories and Research written by Gørill Haugan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access textbook represents a vital contribution to global health education, offering insights into health promotion as part of patient care for bachelor’s and master’s students in health care (nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, radiotherapists, social care workers etc.) as well as health care professionals, and providing an overview of the field of health science and health promotion for PhD students and researchers. Written by leading experts from seven countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia, it first discusses the theory of health promotion and vital concepts. It then presents updated evidence-based health promotion approaches in different populations (people with chronic diseases, cancer, heart failure, dementia, mental disorders, long-term ICU patients, elderly individuals, families with newborn babies, palliative care patients) and examines different health promotion approaches integrated into primary care services. This edited scientific anthology provides much-needed knowledge, translating research into guidelines for practice. Today’s medical approaches are highly developed; however, patients are human beings with a wholeness of body-mind-spirit. As such, providing high-quality and effective health care requires a holistic physical-psychological-social-spiritual model of health care is required. A great number of patients, both in hospitals and in primary health care, suffer from the lack of a holistic oriented health approach: Their condition is treated, but they feel scared, helpless and lonely. Health promotion focuses on improving people’s health in spite of illnesses. Accordingly, health care that supports/promotes patients’ health by identifying their health resources will result in better patient outcomes: shorter hospital stays, less re-hospitalization, being better able to cope at home and improved well-being, which in turn lead to lower health-care costs. This scientific anthology is the first of its kind, in that it connects health promotion with the salutogenic theory of health throughout the chapters. the authors here expand the understanding of health promotion beyond health protection and disease prevention. The book focuses on describing and explaining salutogenesis as an umbrella concept, not only as the key concept of sense of coherence.

Download or read book Egocentric Network Analysis written by Brea L. Perry and published by Structural Analysis in the Soc. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth, comprehensive and practical guide to egocentric network analysis, focusing on fundamental theoretical, research design, and analytic issues.

Download or read book Foundations of Osteopathic Medicine written by Michael Seffinger and published by LWW. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published under the auspices of the American Osteopathic Association."

Download or read book Professional Diabetes Education Counselling and Health Education as an Integral Part of Personalized Diabetes Care written by Andrea Bukovska and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: Diabetes mellitus in the 21st century is a very serious medical, economic, psychological, social and societal problem. As a chronic non-communicable disease with pandemic occurrence, long-term course and serious consequences significantly affects the daily lives of diabetic patients, families, groups, communities and society. It reduces the overall quality of life and therefore requires specific care systematic and effective solution coping with everyday commands, prohibitions, restrictions, obligations and necessities. As the treatment of this disease with many adverse consequences and strict restrictions is increasingly concentrated in the domestic sphere, features professional diabetes education, counselling and health upbringing and the desired inherent part of personalized care in a spirit of evidence-based medicine. It plays an important role in the prevention of diabetes mellitus in the population, other health problems of diabetics, complications of diabetes mellitus and socio-pathological phenomena at any age.Aim: In this work we are presenting education, counselling and health upbringing as an inherent part of personalized care in a spirit of evidence-based medicine. In detailed we present diabetes education, counselling and health upbringing as a form of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. By survey we found the need, scope and importance of professional education, counselling and health upbringing of diabetic patients, patients with pre-diabetic syndromes and risk population.Method: Education as a system of the transmission of specific knowledge and associated intellectual and manual skills and habits directs moral, aesthetic and physical development in accordance with the objectives and role in society. Diabetes education eliminates the deficit of knowledge and skills that have arisen and could persist due to the presence of diabetes. Specialized social counselling is focused to the specific needs and problems of diabetics whose solution requires a comprehensive approach. Health upbringing across the entire spectrum of activities and using modern methods of providing and expanding the theoretical knowledge of health, strengthens the attitudes and habits of prevention, protection and support of health not only hazardous but also population groups and significantly promotes positive and eliminates the negative elements relating to health.Discussion: Diabetes education, counselling and health upbringing play a crucial role in a specific diabetes care as a risk groups of individuals. Treatment in the spirit of personalized evidence-based medicine and the development of chronic and organ-specific complications changes. Therefore it requires constant updating and complementing theoretical knowledge, intellectual and manual habits and skills, as well as systematic guidance in eliminating the negative effects of the disease. Important role to play is effective communication with diabetological team. Our long experience has raised the need for lifelong systematic diabetes education, which would be managing university educated professionals. Because diabetic patients are living with disease and its difficulties all life, diabetes education and counselling undertaken by volunteers working off time in civil jobs is not enough to cover all needs and requirements. Therefore there is a need for the implementation of diabetes education and specialized social counselling in regular working time and in health care facilities for 345,475 (2015) diabetic patients in Slovakia and other individuals in the pre-diabetic stage.Results: The main objective of diabetes education is to train, educate and inform diabetic patients and with this improve compensation, extend and improve the quality of life, reduce the financial cost of a personalized treatment in a spirit of evidence-based medicine, the consequences of acute, chronic and organ-specific complications, but also safeguard the rights of diabetic patients as citizens, patients and consumers and thus to achieve their full integration into society. The aim of diabetes education is to get proper theoretical knowledge, practical skills and a good ability to implement them at home. Health problems and the resulting social consequences represent for most diabetic patients problem of social integration, therefore, a specialized social counselling is focused on coping with health problems and their consequences, improvement of adaptation to the disease, the area of support and social support, guidance, orientation in legislation and claims, if necessary for distribution to another entity. In providing different methods and techniques are used, as well as own instrument DIASSQL 23/20 (Diabetes Social Support Quality of Life 23/20) created in Diabetes Educational Centre DIAMART to measure and early detection of psychosocial problems of diabetics, which significantly decompensate diabetes mellitus and thereby reducing the quality of life.

Download or read book Prestige and Association in an Urban Community written by Edward O. Laumann and published by Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill. This book was released on 1966 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Diabetes Cognitions and Social Support in the Management of Diabetes written by Anna-Mari Aalto and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Coping with Disease written by Annette V. Lee and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is a single challenge a person faces in every stage of life from birth to death, it is the necessity of coping with life's exigencies. These often include health problems, social stress, and perceived difficulties. The ability to deal with these issues defines an individual to a large extent and can accelerate or brake one's development in the multitude of mental and physical pathways intrinsic to life. Coping behaviours include talking out a problem, crying, laughing, relaxation, ignoring the problem, praying, looking for the positive aspects of a situation, assuming everything is terrible, taking medication, hoping a problem will go away, attacking the problem with willpower, cognitive therapy etc. This new book examines new research which will shed light on coping behaviours in a vast array of disease situations.

Download or read book Model of Self Care Ability Social Support and the Quality of Life of Diabetic Patients in Uttaradit Province written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evidence Helping people help themselves written by Debra de Silva and published by The Health Foundation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Psychology and Diabetes written by Clare Bradley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook fulfils a pressing need within the area of psychological measurement in diabetes research and practice by providing access to material which has either been widely dispersed through the psychological and medical literature or has not previously been published. Journal articles describing the psychometric development of scales have rarely included the scales themselves but this book includes copies of scales and a wealth of additional information from unpublished theses, reports and recent manuscripts. You will find information about the reliability, validity, scoring, norms, and use of the measures in previous research presented in one volume. The Handbook is designed to help researchers and clinicians: - To select scales suitable for their purposes - To administer and score the scales correctly - To interpret the results appropriately. Dr. Clare Bradley is Reader in Health Psychology and Director of the Diabetes Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr. Bradley and her research group have designed, developed and used a wide variety of measures of psychological processes and outcomes. Many of these measures have been designed and developed specifically for people with diabetes. Together with diabetes-specific psychological measures developed by other researchers internationally, these instruments have played an important part in facilitating patient-centred approaches to diabetes research and clinical practice.

Download or read book Buddy Support and Diabetic Self care Adherence written by Sally A. Bird and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem: According to the American Diabetes Association, diabetes affects approximately 20.8 million people in the United States. Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) helps diabetics adhere to better levels of diabetes self-management resulting in improved blood sugar levels, thereby postponing complications of this progressive disease. Studies show that DM patients with adequate social support manage their diabetes more effectively and improve quality of life. Purpose and Scope: This evidence-based practice project sought to describe the level of diabetic self-care adherence before an after an educational intervention with or without a buddy. By integrating best research evidence with clinical expertise inviting buddies will enhance effectiveness of DSME classes at a selected healthcare facility. Goal: The goal of this practice change project was to provide evidence-based support that DM patients attending a DSME class with a buddy resulted in improved adherence to self-care activities compared to DM patients attending without a buddy. Objectives: Review research related to buddy support as a social support mechanism to enhance successful life-style change interventions. 1) Collect data as determined by the administration of the SDSCA to DM patients attending DSME classes. 2) Compare recorded responses to the SDSCA measure for DM patients attending DSME classes with and without a buddy at the initial class and at the 3-month follow-up. 3) Evaluate and compare participant AIC levels before and 3-months after the DSME. 4) Identify implications for clinical practice. 5) Identify study limitations and implications for further study. Plan: Phase One-Secure support from the diabetes educator and CEO of the hospital, seek approval for use of the SCSCA and obtain IRB approval. Prepare and print a demographics page and print the SDSCA measure. Phase Two-Collect SDSCA measure data with A1C levels at the initial class and at the 3-month follow-up class. Phase Three-Compare the results, perform the statistical analysis, and write up the findings. Outcomes and Results: T-test for the effect of the buddy on the A1C levels revealed a significant difference for those attending with a buddy. General diet choices were not improved for those attending with a buddy. Specific diet choices for those attending with a buddy were statistically significant. Each of the other constructs showed positive improvements and while not statistically significant, they were clinically significant for participants attending with a buddy compared to those attending without a buddy.

Download or read book Behavioral Diabetes written by Alan M. Delamater and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an up-to-date review of behavioral factors in diabetes management across the lifespan: an update on medical management, epidemiology, and prognosis, and utilize an ecological framework to address various aspects of diabetes management for children and adults on the individual, social, community and medical system, and policy levels. The individual level examines biobehavioral and neuroendocrine factors for their role in the etiology of diabetes, as well as various demographic factors involved in health disparities, and specific psychological issues including distress and quality of life, depression and anxiety, eating disorders, and intervention approaches. Zooming out, the social level addresses the role of social support and family influences as well as group and family interventions to promote more effective diabetes management. The community level addresses medical system factors including the patient-physician relationship and transition programs, as well as community and school-based prevention programs. Finally, chapters also address how the policy level impacts diabetes management considering the role of health care, insurance, and school and workplace policy. Topics featured in this book include: Neuroendocrine and biobehavioral influences on diabetes Eating disorders in individuals with diabetes Family influences and family therapies for children and adults with diabetes Depression and anxiety in children and adults with diabetes Behavioral Diabetes is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students and fellows, as well as clinicians, therapists, and other practitioners involved in diabetes management across the lifespan. A secondary audience comprises individuals working in the community and policy levels, including but not limited to health care and medical systems administrators, as well as school and workplace policymakers. “This book is a comprehensive overview of the extremely important topic of behavioral diabetes. The issues encompassed in this book have evolved greatly over the last few decades and the editors have done a spectacular job in having the key experts on each of the many topics review the literature while at the same time keeping it practical for both clinicians and researchers.” --Irl B. Hirsch, MD, University of Washington, Seattle

Download or read book A Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life." These forces and systems include economic policies, development agendas, cultural and social norms, social policies, and political systems. In an era of pronounced human migration, changing demographics, and growing financial gaps between rich and poor, a fundamental understanding of how the conditions and circumstances in which individuals and populations exist affect mental and physical health is imperative. Educating health professionals about the social determinants of health generates awareness among those professionals about the potential root causes of ill health and the importance of addressing them in and with communities, contributing to more effective strategies for improving health and health care for underserved individuals, communities, and populations. Recently, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to develop a high-level framework for such health professional education. A Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health also puts forth a conceptual model for the framework's use with the goal of helping stakeholder groups envision ways in which organizations, education, and communities can come together to address health inequalities.

Download or read book Buddy Support and Diabetic Self Care Adherence written by Sally A. Bird and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the American Diabetes Association, diabetes affects approximately 20.8 million people in the United States. Diabetes Self-Manangement Education (DSME) helps diabetics improve blood sugar levels, thereby postponing complications of this progressive disease. DSME classes are not sufficient to sustain required lifelong self-care activities. Social support has been shown to enhance self-care activities in type 2 diabetic patients. Studies show that type 2 diabetes (DM) patients with adequate social support manage their diabetes more effectively and improve quality of life. This evidence-based practice project will evaluate a standard of care practice change. Naturally occurring groups will be compared to determine if there is a difference in self-reported diabetes self-care activities between DM patients who are ages 21-65 years and who choose to attend DSME classes with a buddy compared to those attending without a buddy. The Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities (SDSCA) measure, a self-reported questionnaire assessing diet, exercise, blood-glucose testing, foot care, and smoking status has been reliable used for 20 years. SDSCA has adequate reliability as well as validity and sensitivity.