PMID- 36196898
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20221214
LR  - 20230329
IS  - 1552-3799 (Electronic)
IS  - 1054-7738 (Print)
IS  - 1054-7738 (Linking)
VI  - 32
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023 Jan
TI  - Self-Care of Adults with Type 2 Diabetes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 
      Qualitative Interpretive Description Study.
PG  - 73-83
LID - 10.1177/10547738221125991 [doi]
AB  - Due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), diabetes services have been 
      disrupted, causing difficulties for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), 
      and understanding their experience could help improve diabetes care. Therefore, 
      we used a qualitative interpretive description to explore the experience of 
      self-care of adults with T2DM during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected 
      using semi-structured interviews and analyzed theoretically. The sample (N = 30) 
      was composed of 7 females and 23 males, with a mean age of 69.9 years (60-77) and 
      19.4 mean years (3-40) of people living with T2DM. Our findings show reduced 
      physical activity and increased smoking and alcohol consumption affected that 
      self-care. Increased food consumption and stress eating, with greater stress and 
      anxiety, caused worsening of glycemic values. Participants were able to contact 
      healthcare professionals via eHealth or telephone. Others, even those with 
      complications, were not able to receive care or advice. These results suggest 
      that easier contact with health providers, continuous engagement, eHealth 
      solutions, and formal peer support could help self-care in T2DM. Advanced nursing 
      roles and services could solve many issues reported in this study during and 
      after the pandemic.
FAU - Luciani, Michela
AU  - Luciani M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7598-5658
AD  - Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano - Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
FAU - Bigoni, Camilla
AU  - Bigoni C
AD  - Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano - Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
FAU - Canesi, Marta
AU  - Canesi M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4105-7014
AD  - Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano - Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
FAU - Masotto, Matteo
AU  - Masotto M
AD  - Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano - Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
FAU - Fabrizi, Diletta
AU  - Fabrizi D
AD  - Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano - Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
FAU - Di Mauro, Stefania
AU  - Di Mauro S
AD  - Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano - Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
FAU - Ausili, Davide
AU  - Ausili D
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5212-6463
AD  - Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano - Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221005
PL  - United States
TA  - Clin Nurs Res
JT  - Clinical nursing research
JID - 9208508
MH  - Adult
MH  - Male
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Aged
MH  - Self Care/methods
MH  - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/therapy
MH  - Pandemics
MH  - *COVID-19/epidemiology
MH  - Qualitative Research
PMC - PMC9535453
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19
OT  - qualitative research
OT  - self-care
OT  - self-management
OT  - type 2 diabetes
COIS- The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the 
      research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
EDAT- 2022/10/06 06:00
MHDA- 2022/12/15 06:00
PMCR- 2023/01/01
CRDT- 2022/10/05 07:22
PHST- 2022/10/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/12/15 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/10/05 07:22 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1177_10547738221125991 [pii]
AID - 10.1177/10547738221125991 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Clin Nurs Res. 2023 Jan;32(1):73-83. doi: 10.1177/10547738221125991. Epub 2022 
      Oct 5.