Diabetes Care and Self-Care

Care Dependency and Diabetes Self-Care Activities in Elderly Individuals with Diabetes

Introduction: Changing lifestyle, physical inactivity, and obesity lead to increased diabetes prevalence in the elderly. Diabetes management involves self-care activities, such as medical nutrition therapy, physical activity, use of pharmacologic agent, self-monitoring of blood glucose, foot care, and smoking cessation. Physiological, biological, mental changes that show up with aging and the p...

Ramadan Fasting and Diabetes Care

Correlation between self-care and self-efficacy in adolescents with type 1 diabetes

  Introduction: Diabetes Type 1 is one of the most common pediatric chronic conditions. Metabolic control and adherence to medications is weaker in adolescents with diabetes type 1 than preadolescent children. Lack of follow up of treatment regime causes short and long term complications in adolescents with diabetes type 1. So this disease demands special self-care behaviors lifelong. One ...

Self-Care Behaviors’ Glycemic Control and its Related Factors in Type II Diabetes Women Patients

Introduction: Diabetes is the most common metabolic disorder and can have devastating complications. The objective of this study was to determine self-care behaviors for glycemic control and its related factors in type II diabetes women patients. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study, conducted in 2016 on a randomly selected sample of 120 women volunteers, aged over 30 years, referr...

Effectiveness of Compassion Focused Therapy on Loneliness, Self-care Behaviors and Blood Sugar in Diabetes Patients

Introduction: Type II diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases that disrupt the regular flow of life, and it has many physical and mental consequences. Compassion focused therapy is one of the effective treatments for improving physical and psychological characteristics. This research aimed to determine the effectiveness of compassion focused therapy on loneliness, self-care behavior...