PMID- 33176659 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210806 LR - 20210806 IS - 1875-6417 (Electronic) IS - 1573-3998 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 6 DP - 2021 TI - Perceived Barriers, Benefits, Facilitators, and Attitudes of Health Professionals Towards Multidisciplinary Team Care in Type 2 Diabetes Management: A Systematic Review. PG - e111020187812 LID - 10.2174/1573399816999201110200126 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: The need for a multidisciplinary team approach to provide physical exercise, diet, behavioral change, and insulin therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) treatment has long been recognized. However, often patients with T2DM do not have access to a multidisciplinary team. INTRODUCTION: In developing countries, most patients with T2DM receive their diabetes care in the office of an internist or family practice physician or in a primary level health center with a general practitioner. Knowledge of healthcare professionals regarding the perceived barriers, attitudes, facilitators, and benefits of a multidisciplinary team approach in T2DM treatment can help facilitate the implementation of multidisciplinary care in T2DM. METHODS: A systematic search strategy was performed in six databases (PubMed, Web of Science, CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, and Cochrane) using different keyword combinations to identify studies describing the healthcare professionals' views of multidisciplinary team care in T2DM. A textual narrative synthesis was used to analyze data. The Critical Appraisals Skills Programme (CASP) tool for qualitative studies was used to assess the risk of bias and transferability. RESULTS: The views of health professionals about multidisciplinary team care in T2DM were categorized into six major factors, namely working collaboratively to foster supportive relationships; strong committed organizational and team leadership; diversity in expertise, with team members tailored to local circumstances; shared goals and approaches to ensure consistency of message; clear and open communication with the team and with patients; and the patient at the center of decision- making. CONCLUSION: There is a huge gap in shared roles among health professionals in T2DM therapy. Hence, there is a need for allied health professionals such as physiotherapists, dieticians, and psychologists with expertise in diabetes to explore primary healthcare, barriers and facilitators to the successful integration of multidisciplinary team, seamlessly distributedinto three hierarchal levels, namely health management, health professionals, and diabetic patients. CI - Copyright(c) Bentham Science Publishers; For any queries, please email at epub@benthamscience.net. FAU - Dankoly, Usman Sani AU - Dankoly US AD - Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. FAU - Vissers, Dirk AU - Vissers D AD - Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. FAU - El Farkouch, Zainab AU - El Farkouch Z AD - Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. FAU - Kolasa, Esther AU - Kolasa E AD - Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. FAU - Ziyyat, Abderrahim AU - Ziyyat A AD - Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed Premier, Oujda, Morocco. FAU - Rompaey, Bart Van AU - Rompaey BV AD - Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. FAU - Maamri, Abdellatif AU - Maamri A AD - Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed Premier, Oujda, Morocco. LA - eng GR - 698261/Government of Flanders/ GR - SI2019- SEL053/VLIR-UOS South Initiative Project funding, Belgium/ PT - Journal Article PT - Systematic Review PL - United Arab Emirates TA - Curr Diabetes Rev JT - Current diabetes reviews JID - 101253260 SB - IM MH - Attitude MH - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/therapy MH - Health Personnel MH - Humans MH - Patient Care Team MH - Qualitative Research OTO - NOTNLM OT - Type 2 diabetes OT - health profession OT - interdisciplinary health team OT - multidisciplinary care OT - narrative synthesis. OT - qualitative research EDAT- 2020/11/13 06:00 MHDA- 2021/08/07 06:00 CRDT- 2020/11/12 05:29 PHST- 2020/07/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/10/01 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/10/16 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/11/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/08/07 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/11/12 05:29 [entrez] AID - CDR-EPUB-111364 [pii] AID - 10.2174/1573399816999201110200126 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Curr Diabetes Rev. 2021;17(6):e111020187812. doi: 10.2174/1573399816999201110200126.