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- Title
A Study of Patients' Perceptions of Diabetes Care Delivery and Diabetes.
- Authors
Raballo, Marzia; Trevisan, Martina; Trinetta, Anna Franca; Charrier, Lorena; Cavallo, Franco; Porta, Massimo; Trento, Marina
- Abstract
OBJECTIVE--We investigated the perceptions of diabetes care and diabetes in patients followed long-term by group or usual care. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS--Three open questions were administered to 120 patients (43 with T1DM and 77 with T2DM) who had been randomized at least 2 years before to be followed by group care and 121 (41 T1DM and 80 T2DM) who had always been on usual care. The responses were analyzed by propositional analysis, by identifying the focal nuclei, i.e., the terms around which all sentences are organized, and then other predicates, according to their hierarchical relationship to the nuclear proposition. Specific communicative units were arbitrarily classified into three categories: attitudes, empowerment, and locus of control. RESULTS--Patients on group care showed more positive attitudes, higher sense of empowerment, and more internal locus of control than those on usual care. In addition, they expressed a wider and more articulated range of concepts associated with the care received and made less use of medical terminology (P < 0.001, all). Higher HbA1c was associated with negative attitudes (P = 0.025) and negative empowerment (P = 0.055). CONCLUSIONS--Group treatment reinforces communication and peer identification and may achieve its clinical results by promoting awareness, self-efficacy, positive attitudes toward diabetes and the setting of care, an internal locus of control, and, ultimately, empowerment in the patients.
- Subjects
PEOPLE with diabetes; SENSORY perception; MEDICAL care; SICK people; DIABETES
- Publication
Diabetes Care, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 2, p242
- ISSN
0149-5992
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2337/dc11-1495