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- Title
Home alone: the experience of women with type 2 diabetes who are new to intensive control.
- Authors
Rayman, Kathleen; Ellison, Geraldine
- Abstract
Using an inductive interpretive approach we examined the early experiences of women learning intensive self-management of type 2 diabetes. The women expressed feelings of being very much "home alone" during their initial self-management experience, in spite of having requisite knowledge and skills from completing a state-of-the-art multidisciplinary diabetes educational program. Invariably, engagement in the self-management process resulted in strong emotional responses, self-blame, and negative characterizations of self. Conditions associated with ways of being engaged in intensive self-management are described and provide practitioners with needed personal and contextual information to inform clinical care.
- Publication
Health care for women international, 2004, Vol 25, Issue 10, p900
- ISSN
0739-9332
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/07399330490508604