Home Alone: The Experience of Women With Type 2 Diabetes Who Are New to Intensive Control
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2004
Description
Using an inductive interpretive approach we examined the early experiences of women learning intensive self-management of type 2 diabetes. The women expressed feelings of being very much "home alone" during their initial self-management experience, in spite of having requisite knowledge and skills from completing a state-of-the-art multidisciplinary diabetes educational program. Invariably, engagement in the self-management process resulted in strong emotional responses, self-blame, and negative characterizations of self. Conditions associated with ways of being engaged in intensive self-management are described and provide practitioners with needed personal and contextual information to inform clinical care.
Citation Information
Rayman, Kathleen M.; and Ellison, Geraldine C.. 2004. Home Alone: The Experience of Women With Type 2 Diabetes Who Are New to Intensive Control. Health Care for Women International. Vol.25(10). 900-915. https://doi.org/10.1080/07399330490508604 PMID: 15513798 ISSN: 0739-9332