PMID- 31640691
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200219
LR  - 20231014
IS  - 1472-6947 (Electronic)
IS  - 1472-6947 (Linking)
VI  - 19
IP  - 1
DP  - 2019 Oct 22
TI  - An integrated model to evaluate the impact of social support on improving 
      self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
PG  - 197
LID - 10.1186/s12911-019-0914-9 [doi]
LID - 197
AB  - BACKGROUND: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic disease closely related 
      to personal life style. Therefore, achieving effective self-management is one of 
      the most important ways to control it. There is evidence that social support can 
      help to improve the self-management ability of patients with T2DM, but which 
      social support is more effective has been rarely explored. The purpose of this 
      study is to construct an integrated model to analyze which social support has 
      more significant impact on self-management of T2DM, and provide reasonable 
      suggestions to health care providers on how to effectively play the role of 
      social support. METHODS: We established a social support indicator evaluation 
      system and proposed an integrated model that combines ANP (Analytical Network 
      Process) and CRITIC (CRiteria Importance through Intercriteria Correlation) 
      methods to evaluate the impact of social support on T2DM self-management from 
      both subjective and objective perspectives. The weights calculated by the model 
      will serve as the basis for us to judge the importance of different social 
      support indicators. RESULTS: Informational support (weighting 49.26%) is the most 
      important criteria, followed by tangible support (weighting 39.24%) and emotional 
      support (weighting 11.51%). Among 11 sub-criteria, guidance (weighting 23.05%) 
      and feedback (weighting 14.68%) are two most relevant with T2DM self-management. 
      This result provides ideas and evidence for health care providers on how to offer 
      more effective social support. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first 
      study in which Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tools, specifically ANP and 
      CRITIC, are used to evaluate the impact of social support on improving 
      self-management of type 2 diabetes. The study suggests that incorporating two 
      sub-indicators of guidance and feedback into the diabetes care programs may have 
      great potential to improve T2DM self-management and further control patient blood 
      glucose and reduce complications.
FAU - Wang, Xiaojia
AU  - Wang X
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5294-1599
AD  - Department of Information Management, School of Management, Hefei University of 
      Technology, Mailbox 270, No. 193, Tunxi Road, Hefei, 230009, An Hui Province, 
      China. xjwang@hfut.edu.cn.
FAU - He, Linglan
AU  - He L
AD  - Department of Information Management, School of Management, Hefei University of 
      Technology, Mailbox 270, No. 193, Tunxi Road, Hefei, 230009, An Hui Province, 
      China.
FAU - Zhu, Keyu
AU  - Zhu K
AD  - Department of Information Management, School of Management, Hefei University of 
      Technology, Mailbox 270, No. 193, Tunxi Road, Hefei, 230009, An Hui Province, 
      China.
FAU - Zhang, Shanshan
AU  - Zhang S
AD  - Department of Clinical Teaching, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui 
      University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China.
AD  - The National Chinese Medicine Clinical Research Base- Key Disease of Diabetes 
      Mellitus Study, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China.
FAU - Xin, Ling
AU  - Xin L
AD  - The National Chinese Medicine Clinical Research Base- Key Disease of Diabetes 
      Mellitus Study, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China.
AD  - Healthcare and Public health Information Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of 
      Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China.
FAU - Xu, Weiqun
AU  - Xu W
AD  - The National Chinese Medicine Clinical Research Base- Key Disease of Diabetes 
      Mellitus Study, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China.
AD  - Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of 
      Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China.
FAU - Guan, Yuxiang
AU  - Guan Y
AD  - The National Chinese Medicine Clinical Research Base- Key Disease of Diabetes 
      Mellitus Study, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China.
AD  - Department of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of 
      Chinese Medicine, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20191022
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
JT  - BMC medical informatics and decision making
JID - 101088682
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Decision Support Techniques
MH  - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/diagnosis/*psychology/*therapy
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Self Care
MH  - *Self-Management
MH  - *Social Support
PMC - PMC6805520
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - ANP
OT  - CRITIC
OT  - Evaluation indicator system
OT  - Self-management
OT  - Social support
OT  - Type 2 diabetes
COIS- The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
EDAT- 2019/10/24 06:00
MHDA- 2020/02/20 06:00
PMCR- 2019/10/22
CRDT- 2019/10/24 06:00
PHST- 2018/11/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/09/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/10/24 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/10/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/02/20 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/10/22 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s12911-019-0914-9 [pii]
AID - 914 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s12911-019-0914-9 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2019 Oct 22;19(1):197. doi: 10.1186/s12911-019-0914-9.