Clinical and Socio-demographic Determinants of Self-care Maintenance, Monitoring and Management in US Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Michela Luciani, Emanuela Rossi, Paola Rebora, Michael Stawnychy, Davide Ausili and Barbara Riegel

Clinical Nursing Research, 2021, vol. 30, issue 3, 285-292

Abstract: The aims of this study were to describe self-care in US T2DM patients and to identify clinical and sociodemographic determinants of self-care maintenance, monitoring, and management in US T2DM patients. A secondary analysis was performed using data from a cross-sectional study done to test the psychometric performance of the Self-Care of Diabetes Inventory in US English speaking adults with diabetes. In our sample ( n = 207), self-care maintenance was adequately performed (median = 75), self-care monitoring was borderline (median = 67.6) and self-care management was poor (median = 55.6). Low income ( p = .0019) and low self-care confidence ( p

Keywords: type 2 diabetes mellitus; self-care; self-management; self-efficacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/1054773820916987

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