查看文章

The second Diabetes Attitudes, Wishes and Needs (DAWN2) study examined the experiences of family members of people with diabetes for benchmarking and identifying unmet needs or areas for improvement to assist family members and those with diabetes to effectively self‐manage.

In total, 2057 family members of people with diabetes participated in an online, telephone or in‐person survey designed to assess the impact of diabetes on family life, family support for people with diabetes and educational and community support.

Supporting a relative with diabetes was perceived as a burden by 35.3% (range across countries 10.6–61.7%) of respondents. Over half of respondents [51.4% (22.5–76.0%)] rated their quality of life as ‘good’ or ‘very good’. However, distress about the person with diabetes was high, with 61.3% (31.5–86.4%) worried about hypoglycaemia. The impact of …