Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Health Commun. 2021 Dec;36(14):1961-1969. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2020.1808408. Epub 2020 Aug 26.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is both prevalent and profoundly impactful, and how people cope with the illness is related to a variety of individual and relational outcomes. The goal of this investigation was to test the logic of the recently extended Theoretical Model of Communal Coping (TMCC), a communication theory that argues that race (in this study, Black and White) moderates the relationship between communal coping and disease-related outcomes (i.e., glucose, diet, and exercise self-care). In general, survey data from 348 participants ( = 224 Black participants, = 124 White participants) revealed that although communal coping was directly and positively related to self-care, the relationship between communal coping and self-care was stronger for Black participants than White participants. The results of the study have implications for the TMCC and for researchers, families managing type 2 diabetes, and healthcare practitioners.
2 型糖尿病患病率高，对患者影响深远，患者如何应对疾病与各种个体和人际关系结果相关。本研究旨在检验最近扩展的共同应对理论模型（TMCC）的逻辑，该理论是一种沟通理论，认为种族（在本研究中为黑人和白人）调节了共同应对与疾病相关结果（即血糖、饮食和锻炼自我护理）之间的关系。总的来说，来自 348 名参与者（=224 名黑人参与者，=124 名白人参与者）的调查数据显示，尽管共同应对与自我护理直接呈正相关，但对于黑人参与者来说，共同应对与自我护理之间的关系比白人参与者更强。研究结果对 TMCC 以及研究人员、管理 2 型糖尿病的家庭和医疗保健从业者具有重要意义。
