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• Title: Determinants of Quality of Life in Primary Care Patients with Diabetes: Implications for Social Workers (Report)
• Author : Health and Social Work
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 230 KB

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Diabetes has long been acknowledged as a biopsychosocial disease (DeCoster, 2001). Diabetes management involves a dramatic change in lifestyle, including keeping a low-sugar diet, maintaining an exercise regime, monitoring daily blood sugar, and taking oral medications or insulin supplements. Social workers are in a unique position to help patients with diabetes maintain a healthy lifestyle and negotiate the medical world (Amir, Rabin, & Galatzer, 1990; DeCoster & Cummings, 2005; Gross et al., 2007). Knowledge of the specific factors that affect one's quality of life (QoL) is of utmost importance to social workers for the development and implementation of future interventions that would help patients with diabetes manage their condition (Claiborne & Massaron, 2000). Because the QoL of diabetic patients is affected by many variables, which are not all related to diabetes, it is particularly important to ask patients about their QoL in the hypothetical absence of diabetes and not only about their subjective general QoL. The former gives information about the perceived effect diabetes has on one's QoL. QoL has captured an increasing role in medical literature. Research has shown that QoL is a risk factor for longer and more complicated hospital stays, poor adherence to medical treatment, and increased morbidity and mortality (Fan, Curtis, Tu, McDonell, & Fihn, 2002; Jacobson, Wu, & Feinberg, 2003; Rumsfeld et al., 1999; Westin, Nilstun, Carlsson, & Erhardt, 2005).As a result, it is no longer acceptable to evaluate only the biophysiological indicators of the disease, rather a comprehensive evaluation that takes into consideration QoL is indicated (Rubin & Peyrot, 1999).

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