The effects of social support on health, well-being and management of diabetes mellitus: a black South African perspective

Westaway, Margaret S.; Seager, Jennifer; Rheeder, Paul; Zyl, Danie G. Van

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“…Average scores on the health and well-being sub-scales were very similar to those reported previously for South African diabetic patients (Westaway, 2005) and in the US (Stewart et al, 1988). In contrast with previous research, which found that women and African-Americans tended to report poorer health and well-being (Stewart et al, 1988;Westaway et al, 1999), neither race, language, gender nor marital status affected health and wellbeing in the current study.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

The impact of chronic diseases on the health and well-being of South Africans in early and later old age

Westaway

2010

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

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The impact of chronic diseases on the health and well-being of South Africans in early and later old age

Westaway

2010

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“…Diabetes self-care is for example more effective when using a family-centered or church-based approach (SamuelHodge et al 2000). Widowed patients have less emotional support and therefore experience more difficulty with the management of diabetes (Westaway et al 2005). When comparing self-efficacy between patients who were married or living together with all other marital status groups, no significant differences were found.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…These systems include electronic support groups, Diabetes SA and the support provided at the health clinics and hospitals. In terms of the relationship between employment status and diabetes selfefficacy, Barrett et al (2007) and Westaway et al (2005) found that patients from higher income groups tend to have better health and engage in more regular leisure time physical activity. In this study a similar correlation was found between employment status and high levels of self-efficacy, which tended to approach significance.…”

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High levels of self-efficacy in patients with type 2 diabetes attending a tertiary level clinic

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Nel

Rooijen

et al. 2008

South African Journal of Physiotherapy

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Self-management is a vital element in the care of type 2diabetes patients. In turn, self-efficacy plays a major role in patients’ self-management. Self-efficacy is the patient’s personal judgement of his/herconfidence in performing aspects of diabetes self-management. This study investigated the level of self-efficacy of patients attending the Pretoria Academic Hospital Diabetes Clinic, in the light of high levels ofre-admission due to complications, suggesting low self-efficacy levels. Eighty type 2 diabetes patients, mean age of 59 years, completed thepublished IDEA LL baseline questionnaire, to establish a self-efficacyscore. Relationships between self-efficacy and demographic factors wereinvestigated using the chi-square test. The mean self-efficacy level of thesample population is excellent (mean = 85.44%).A lthough self-reported self-efficacy levels are excellent, in comparison to the Sarkar study (2006) in which participants only scored “fair”, it is speculated that self-efficacy is not transferred to self-management behaviour in thispopulation. Afrikaans and English speaking participants score significantly better than those from other language categories. There is a positive relationship between self-efficacy and level of education and employment status (tendedtowards significance with p values of 0.06 and 0.07 respectively). A lthough self-efficacy scores of clients at this tertiary level outpatient clinic are excellent, further research is necessary to quantify self-management strategies andto correlate these with self-efficacy levels.

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“…Although the barriers to transportation were not assessed in this study, previous studies found that distance from health facilities was positively correlated to glycaemic control of the subject [88,89]. Other studies have revealed the importance of social support to subject's glycaemic control [90][91][92]. In view of the increasing incidence of diabetes in Malaysia, social support warrants future research as this may be a barrier to subjects attaining glycaemic control.…”

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Pharmacist intervention in home care program for diabetes patients

Gillani¹,

Sulaiman²,

Baig³

et al. 2012

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Majority of research reports identified moderate reduction in glycated haemoglobin with education interventions regardless of age group. Our study objective was to evaluate the pharmacist interventions in providing patient home care. A 24-week longitudinal quasi-experimental-pretest/post-test study design was used to assess the effectiveness of a diabetes education program to enhance self-care practices. A doubleblinded randomized study design was considered but was not feasible as the investigator was responsible for implementing the intervention and collecting data on outcomes. Since this was a longitudinal study a 25% attrition rate was included in the calculation of sample size. Hence the sample size for the proposed study was 106 subjects with 53 subjects in each group. All analyses were done using SPSS version 18 ® . The level of significance was set at 0.05. The Research Ethics Committee of hospital and the Malaysian Medical Research and Ethics Committee approved the study. Of the 109 subject who met the study-entry criteria, 3 subjects declined to participate due to lack of time and interest. There was no significant relationship between the demographic and clinical characteristic of participants who completed the study. No significant relationship between the intervention and control groups who completed the study in demographic, clinical and psychosocial contexts. Of the 47 subjects from the intervention group who reported adherent to their daily medication intake after the education intervention, 51 subjects (31.9%) reported taking their medication at the wrong time. The recommended times for oral anti-hyperglycemic medication (OAM) are: sulphonylureas 30 minutes before food, acarbose with food, metformin with or within 30 minutes after food. This research has shown a brief structured education program that incorporated behavior science specifically selfefficacy was effective in enhancing self-care practices (SMBG and medication adherence) and improving glycaemic control in the intervention group.

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The effects of social support on health, well-being and management of diabetes mellitus: a black South African perspective

Cited by 65 publications

References 42 publications

The impact of chronic diseases on the health and well-being of South Africans in early and later old age

The impact of chronic diseases on the health and well-being of South Africans in early and later old age

High levels of self-efficacy in patients with type 2 diabetes attending a tertiary level clinic

Pharmacist intervention in home care program for diabetes patients

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