作者
Catherine C Gao, Nataly R Espinoza Suarez, Freddy JK Toloza, Ariana S Malaga Zuniga, Sarah R McCarthy, Kasey R Boehmer, Lixia Yao, Sunyang Fu, Juan P Brito
发表日期
2021/10/1
期刊
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes
卷号
5
期号
5
页码范围
898-906
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Objective
To understand the perspectives of persons’ living with diabetes about the increasing cost of diabetes management through an analysis of online health communities (OHCs) and the impact of persons’ participation in OHCs on their capacity and treatment burden.
Patients and Methods
A qualitative study of 556 blog posts submitted between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2017 to 4 diabetes social networking sites was conducted between March 2018 and July 2019. All posts were coded inductively using thematic analysis procedures. Eton’s Burden of Treatment Framework and Boehmer’s Theory of Patient Capacity directed triangulation of themes with existing theory.
Results
Three themes were identified: (1) cost barriers to care: participants describe individual and systemic cost barriers that inhibit prescribed therapy goals; (2) impact of financial cost on health: participants describe the financial effects of …
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