An essential characteristic of advanced practice nurses is the use of theory in practice.
Clinical nurse specialists apply theory in providing or directing patient care, in their work as …

Effective interventions build on teens' internal and external supports (family, technology, and
internal motivation) in order to simplify their management of diabetes and provide …

OBJECTIVE: To review reliability, validity, and normative data from 7 different studies,
involving a total of 1,988 people with diabetes, and provide a revised version of the …

BACKGROUND: Social support is one of the most effective factors on the diabetic self-care.
This study aimed to assess social support and its relationship to self-care in type 2 diabetic …

Current evidence indicates that individuals and families who engage in self-management
(SM) behaviors improve their health outcomes. While the results of these studies are …

Patients' self‐care behaviours have a major role in diabetes management. Diabetes
education provides the required knowledge, but despite this, self‐care is often suboptimal …

In Brief Diabetes self-management can be difficult and frustrating for both patients and
practitioners. Information is needed about which barriers present the greatest obstacles for …

Objective To employ a risk and resistance framework to examine changes in metabolic
control over early to middle adolescence. Methods We interviewed 70 girls and 62 boys …

Diabetes management depends almost entirely on behavioral self-regulation. Behavioral
scientists have continued a collaboration with other health systems researchers to develop a …

Objective To determine if parental monitoring of adolescent behavior was related to regimen
adherence and metabolic control among adolescents with type 1 diabetes. An additional …