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- Title
Self-care is Renouncement, Routine, and Control: The Experience of Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
- Authors
Luciani, Michela; Montali, Lorenzo; Nicolò, Gabriella; Fabrizi, Diletta; Di Mauro, Stefania; Ausili, Davide
- Abstract
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus can cause serious complications; it has a severe impact on the quality of life and high costs. One of the key strategies to manage diabetes is self-care, a complex multifactorial process influenced by personal, cultural, and systemic factors, that comprises self-care maintenance, self-care monitoring, and self-care management. Few patients perform adequate self-care. To deepen our understanding of patients' experiences of self-care maintenance, self-care monitoring, and self-care management, we conducted the first qualitative study on this topic. This study used Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, informed by the Middle-range Theory of Self-care of Chronic Illness, to explore the experience and meaning of self-care maintenance, self-care monitoring, and self-care management in adults with T2DM (n = 10). Three themes were identified: self-care is renouncement, self-care is routine, and self-care is control. A cross-cutting moral pattern connects the three themes. Our findings corroborate the Middle-range Theory of Self-care of Chronic Illness in the field of diabetes self-care and could inform practitioners in understanding the experience of self-care as a complex phenomenon and in developing tailored interventions.
- Subjects
ITALY; CULTURE; ETHICS; SELF-management (Psychology); RESEARCH methodology; INTERVIEWING; TYPE 2 diabetes; EXPERIENCE; PATIENTS' attitudes; PHENOMENOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL structures; HEALTH behavior; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; THEMATIC analysis; JUDGMENT sampling; DATA analysis software; PATIENT compliance; HEALTH self-care; ADULTS
- Publication
Clinical Nursing Research, 2021, Vol 30, Issue 6, p892
- ISSN
1054-7738
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1054773820969540