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J Diabetes Metab Disord. 2014 Jan 08;13(1):17. doi: 10.1186/2251-6581-13-17.

Facilitators and barriers of adaptation to diabetes: experiences of Iranian patients.

Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders

Hossein Karimi Moonaghi, Hossein Namdar Areshtanab, Leila Jouybari, Mohammad Arshadi Bostanabad, Heather McDonald

Affiliations

  1. Department of Post Graduate, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. [email protected].

PMID: 24401490 PMCID: PMC3929262 DOI: 10.1186/2251-6581-13-17

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most challenging and burdensome chronic diseases of the 21st century and More than 1% of the Iranian urban population older than 20 years develops Type 2 diabetes each year. Living with diabetes mellitus has been described as a dynamic personal transitional adaptation, based on restructuring of the illness perceived experience and management of the self. Adaptation to Type 2 Diabetes mellitus is an integral part of diabetes care.This study explored the experiences of facilitators and barriers adaptation to Type 2 Diabetes by Iranian patients.

METHODS: This study was conducted by using qualitative content analysis. Data were collected via in-depth, semi-structured and face to face interviews with 15 patients with type2 diabetes.

RESULTS: Three themes emerged from collected data, including a) individual context with Beliefs, personal background, and previous experience subthemes. b) supportive system with Family, Society and Health organizations subthemes and c) self-comparison with comparison with other diabetes and comparison with other diseases subthemes.

CONCLUSIONS: Identifying and managing Facilitators and Barriers adaptation to Type 2 Diabetes mellitus are an integral part of diabetes care. This study provides a better understanding of the factors from perspective of patients and it can be utilized by health care providers to adapt their health care and education contents to better meet the needs of people with diabetes.

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