MHS599 MSHS Integrative Project Annotated Bibliography

MHS599 MSHS Integrative Project Annotated Bibliography
Huey Watson
TUI University
August 29, 2016
American Diabetes Association. (2008). Nutrition recommendations and interventions for diabetes. Diabetes Care, 31(Supplement 1), S61-S78.
The article explores some of the nutrition interventions and its benefits in managing and preventing diabetes. The study emphasizes the benefits medical nutrition therapy at all levels of diabetes management and prevention. The article also recommends intervention strategies and plans for the treatment of diabetes. These recommendations are aimed at decreasing the risks of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) by promoting a healthy lifestyle. The article provides diabetic patients, caregivers, and health professional with strategies which they can use to address patient needs and designing self-care management approaches. The study also provides those who have not contracted the disease with healthy lifestyle techniques that they can use to prevent the disease. This is essential to the youths who are ready to practice unhealthy lifestyles that are risky to their health. With these recommendations, diabetic patients will be able to meet the nutritional needs of the cycle that they are in.
Blackwell, M., Tomlinson, P. A., Rayns, J., Hunter, J., Sjoeholm, A., & Wheeler, B. J. (2016). Exploring the motivations behind misreporting self-measured blood glucose in adolescents with type 1 diabetes–a qualitative study. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders, 15(1), 1.
The authors of this article explore the factors that motivate adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) to misreport their results to their parents or health care providers. The study notes that this behavior of misreporting is common among the adolescents. The study theorizes the fact that self-monitored blood glucose (SMBG) is an important component in modern T1DM management. Adolescents do not adhere with SMBG, and it appears in different ways such as reduced frequency in SMBG. Misreporting SMBG to caregivers and health professionals remain to be a complex aspect that may have strict consequences on T1DM patients. Misreporting of SMBG takes various forms that include verbal misreporting and logbook misreporting (manipulating pump download data).
The study notes that this misreporting is influenced by the desire to avoid any negative consequences. Those parents who impose disciplinary actions on non-adherence children contribute to misreporting of self-care management information. The adolescents with have to provide false information to avoid punishments. Also, the adolescents will give false information if their results are worrying. The study also notes that adolescents will use misreporting their results as a manipulative strategy to get what they want. Despite the advancements in technology, misreporting remains to be a major issue that needs to be addressed. This study provides a deeper insight into the factors that influences adolescents to this behavior in type 1 diabetes patients.
Ding, J., Strachan, M. W., Reynolds, R. M., Frier, B. M., Deary, I. J., Gerald, F. F. R., ... & Price, J. F. (2010). Diabetic Retinopathy and Cognitive Decline in Older People With Type 2 Diabetes The Edinburgh Type 2 Diabetes Study.Diabetes, 59(11), 2883-2889.
The paper explores the association between diabetic retinopathy and cognitive decline in older people with type t diabetes. The study notes that the increased risks of age-related cognitive problems and decline are associated with type 2 diabetes. It was also noted that type 2 diabetes increases higher risks such as stroke and dementia in older people. The study investigates the risk factors that are associated with the effects of type 2 diabetes. The study analyzed an ET2DS population that has been designed to investigate the risk factors for cognitive impairment is type 2 diabetes. The study noted that negative associations of DR with cognitive measures are significant in men as they get old. The study analyzes the multiple measures that can be taken to reduce these effects in the older population with type 2 diabetes. By presenting these medication measures and approaches, older people with cognitive impairment can be helped to regain their cognitive measures.
Moghissi, E., & King, A. B. (2014). Individualizing insulin therapy in the management of type 2 diabetes. The American journal of medicine, 127(10), S3-S10.
The article theorizes the benefits of individualizing treatment in not only type 2 diabetic patients but in all patients who have been diagnosed with diabetes. The article analyzes the evolution of insulin therapy and the lessons that can be drawn from other comparative clinical trials in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The paper draws some of the benefits of individualized treatment plans to diabetic patients. The paper notes that this treatment plan is viewed as a last resort by most caregivers and health professionals. The authors emphasize that insulin therapy is vital in the management of type 2 diabetes, and the perspective of viewing it as a last resort should be dismissed. Like other articles that have provided a deeper understanding of the treatment of diabetes, this article also helps the health care professionals, caregivers, and researchers to evaluate management plans for diabetes.
Mohammed, A. K., Medarametla, C., Rabbani, M. M. E., & Prashanthi, K. (2015). Role of a clinical pharmacist in managing diabetic nephropathy: an approach of pharmaceutical care plan. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders, 14(1), 1.
The authors of this article look into the role played by a clinical pharmacist in managing diabetic nephropathy. The study notes that despite the etiology of kidney disease, heavy proteinuria is one of the pathological aspects in addressing diabetic nephropathy. The study theorizes that protein restriction help in slowing down the progression of albuminuria, glomerular filtration rate decline and occurrence of end-stage renal disease. The study used a case of a type 2 diabetes patient who had developed diabetes nephropathy. The case helped the study to demonstrate that compliance of low protein with pharmaceutical care improves the glomerular filtration rate. The study explores how a pharmaceutical care approach can help in managing diabetic nephropathy. By demonstrating how this approach can be beneficial, the study is better positioned to address the diabetic nephropathy.
Pratley, R. E. (2013). The early treatment of type 2 diabetes. The American journal of medicine, 126(9), S2-S9.
This article focuses on all the aspects of early treatment of type 2 diabetes. The paper notes that the early treatment faces many challenges. The article explores these challenges that caregivers and diabetic patients face while treating the disease. The paper also explores some of the benefits of early interventions. It also theorizes some of the prevention trials by demonstrating that advancement to type 2 diabetes can be slowed down by addressing type 1 diabetes. The paper also analyzes the existing evidence-based guidelines that have been and still can be used to address type 1 diabetes and delay its advancement to the early stages of type 2 diabetes. With the evidence and demonstrations in the paper, the article positions itself at a better position of helping health care professionals, caregivers, and diabetic patients as well with insights on how to design self-care management plans.
Ruis, C., Biessels, G. J., Gorter, K. J., Van Den Donk, M., Kappelle, L. J., & Rutten, G. E. (2009). Cognition in the early stage of type 2 diabetes.Diabetes Care, 32(7), 1261-1265.
The study investigates the cognitive functions of patients who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and provides an insight into the nature and severity of cognitive decline in the early developmental stages of the disease. The paper also addressed the risk factors that may contribute to cognitive decline. The study analyzed diabetic patients from previous cohort study by addressing the six cognitive domains. The study noted that recently type 2 diabetes diagnosed patients performed poorly in memory functions especially the immediate and incidental memory. Like other previous studies, this study also noted that macrovascular diseases and smoking are associated with cognition impairment in patients with diabetes. By demonstrating the risk factors associated with cognition in early stages of type 2 diabetes, health professionals and researchers will be able to design appropriate self-care management approaches to diabetic patients. The study also provides an insight into what can be done to help diabetic patients who smoke.
Shrivastava, S. R., Shrivastava, P. S., & Ramasamy, J. (2013). Role of self-care in management of diabetes mellitus. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders, 12(1), 1.
The study addresses the role of self-care in the management of diabetes mellitus. The study theorizes that the needs of diabetic patients need to be addressed by the health care providers to enable them to have knowledge of what is required of them. The study notes that poor attitudes and literacy levels about the disease contribute to poor self-care activities by the patients. The study notes that there is a need for reliable and valid measures for self-management of diabetes. The study proposes seven essential self-care behaviors that will predict better outcomes in diabetic patients. The proposed behaviors include healthy coping skills, compliant medications, healthy eating, monitoring of blood sugar, being physically active, good problem-solving skills and risk-reduction behaviors. These behaviors do not only benefit the patients but also the clinicians, educators, and researchers who evaluate new approaches to self-care. The study also notes that self-care does not only include how well one performs these activities but also how they interrelate them. However, the study notes that self-care management has its barriers. Unequal distribution of health care providers, poor access to drugs and high costs, and degree of symptoms restrict self-care activities for patients in developing countries. The study concludes by stating that there is a need for self-care dedicated behaviors in all domains such as physical activities, food choices and compliance with medications to prevent diabetes-related problems.
Goode, P. (2016). The effect of a diabetes self-management program for African Americans in a faith-based setting (Doctoral dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro).
According to research, “African Americans are more susceptible to diabetes as compared to any other races”. Diabetes, as we all know, is a very serious disease more especially because it could definitely lead to complications such as “blindness, kidney failure, and non-traumatic lower limb amputations”. Thus, in order to prevent this complication, this study was designed to test a culturally fitted, self-managed program for diabetic African Americans. More particularly, this test is characterized by a series of ‘interventions’ and ‘reminders’ done at specific times of the day. In terms of setting, set-up, and duration, the study was held for six weeks, employing 32 adult participants who are ages 18 and above. Furthermore, the participants were tested using a pre- and post-examination which is designed with the help of Health history and biomarkers, every after “evening worship”. At the end of the six weeks, findings revealed that there were “positive improvements in diabetes knowledge, self-efficacy, symptoms management, and diabetes self-management activities from pre-intervention to post-intervention”. Based on this findings, the researchers were able to conclude that “faith” is one significant factor that affects the self-management routine of an individual – or at least of the African Americans.
Basing from the premises and the results of this study, it is apparent that “faith” has a significant effect on implementing more effective and ‘culturally-based’ knowledge dissemination strategy for specific populations. An important point that would definitely shed some light on my own research.
Grant, S. M. (2007). Physical and social environmental predictors of diabetes self-management in African Americans: The mediating effects of individual level psychosocial factors (Order No. 3299675). Available from ProQuest Central; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (304853975). Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/304853975?accountid=47253
This study very much like the preceding article above in such a way that it employs African-Americans and its main goal is to test an alternative method for “explaining diabetes self-management in a specific population. However, as compared to the work above, this research done by Grant (2007) employs a more general and holistic approach in which it analyzed the individual, social, and cultural factors that affect self-management behaviors of the sample population. According to the study; (1) individual factors include “diabetes knowledge, health beliefs, and self-efficacy”, (2) Social factors include, “social support and physical environmental support”, and (3) Cultural factors include norms, traditions, and beliefs of the population. The set-up of the study includes 309 African-Americans studied through the use of survey questionnaires. When the findings came in, it revealed that the two most important factors that determine the self-management routines of African-Americans are; (1) Individual and (2) social support.
In contrast with my research, I believe that this one could add in the existing knowledge in terms of Diabetes type 2 treatment, self-management, and intervention research.
Hershey, D. S. (2011). Older Adults with Diabetes and Cancer: Impact on Diabetes Self-management.
According to this study, about “eight to eighteen percent of the individuals with cancer also have preexisting diabetes”. And, since there’s a higher probability that diabetes-related complications arise for cancer patients, self-management is very important especially for patients with both. In line with this, this study aimed at examining “the relationship between the individual, clinical, and behavioral characteristics” for patients – aged 50 and above – who has cancer and are taking chemotherapy at the same time. This is to answer the question as to what problems and issues does a chemo patient face in terms of diabetes self-management? In terms of its set-up and duration, the study employed 34 adults – aged 50 and above – who also has a history of diabetes, all of whom were surveyed in a span of eight weeks. After the tests were conducted and with the help of statistical tools, the results made it clear that there is a positive correlation between the efficacy of a patient’s self-medication behavior with the severity and age of his diabetes. Thus, despite the patient’s ‘cancer level’ those who had diabetes years back have more adherence and adjusted behaviors towards self-medication.
Campmans-Kuijpers, M. J., Lemmens, L. C., Baan, C. A., Gorter, K. J., Groothuis, J., Van Vuure, K. H., & Rutten, G. E. (2013). Defining and improving quality management in Dutch diabetes care groups and outpatient clinics: design of the...