Abstract
Self-care is believed to play an important role in diabetes mellitus (DM) management, and the relationship between DM self-care and glycemic control has been extensively examined in the literature. However, most existing DM self-care literature focuses on patients' routine health behaviors. The literature has not examined in detail the relationship between health outcomes and patient decision making/nonroutine responses to signs and symptoms of DM. This article adopted Riegel and Dickson's situation-specific theory of heart failure self-care [J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2008;23(3):190-196], which incorporates an examination of patient decision making and nonroutine behaviors in their working concept of self-care, and used it as a framework for reviewing the research literature relevant to how DM self-care influences health outcomes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 93-98 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Diabetes mellitus
- Glycemic control
- Health outcomes
- Self-care
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
- Advanced and Specialized Nursing