Jordan University of Science and Technology Faculty of Nursing, Irbid, Jordan.
University of Louisville School of Nursing, Louisville, KY, USA.
West J Nurs Res. 2020 Jul;42(7):485-494. doi: 10.1177/0193945919867294. Epub 2019 Aug 2.
Social support promotes behavior change and self-management that leads to improved health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of self-management in mediating the relationship between social support dimensions and health outcomes of African Americans with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Cross-sectional data were collected from 102 African Americans with T2D at an outpatient clinic. The majority of the participants were female, single, unemployed, and having low income. Functional support, the quality of the primary intimate relationship, and the number of support persons were negatively correlated with depression. Functional support and satisfaction with support explained a significant small amount of the variance in self-management. However, self-management did not mediate the relationships between social support dimensions and the health outcomes. The results of this study shed the light on the unique relationships of social support dimensions with health outcomes of African Americans with T2D.
社会支持促进行为改变和自我管理，从而改善健康结果。本研究的目的是评估自我管理在调解社会支持维度与非裔美国人 2 型糖尿病（T2D）患者健康结果之间关系中的作用。横断面数据来自于一家门诊诊所的 102 名非裔美国 T2D 患者。大多数参与者为女性、单身、失业且收入低。功能支持、主要亲密关系的质量和支持人数与抑郁呈负相关。功能支持和对支持的满意度解释了自我管理中显著的小部分方差。然而，自我管理并不能调解社会支持维度与健康结果之间的关系。本研究的结果揭示了社会支持维度与非裔美国 T2D 患者健康结果之间的独特关系。
