O'Brien Coleen, van Rooyen Dalena, Ricks Esmeralda
Day Clinic/Gastroenterology Unit, Greenacres Hospital, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Health SA. 2020 Nov 17;25:1381. doi: 10.4102/hsag.v25i0.1381. eCollection 2020.
The global pandemic of diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) is the direct cause of significant health and economic problems for both governments and individuals owing to the high level of morbidity and mortality. South Africa has the second highest incidence of DM2 in sub-Saharan Africa.
This article describes the experiences of diabetes nurse educators in relation to self-management of DM2 of persons living with DM2.
This article involves nurse educators working in diabetes clinics in public and private hospitals in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, South Africa.
A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data from a focus group interview comprising three participants and two individual interviews. The interviews were recorded with the permission of participants, transcribed and then coded using Tesch's model of data analysis. Themes were agreed upon with the consensus of the researcher, two supervisors and an independent coder.
Three themes were identified: (1) diabetes nurse educators have clear perceptions about the importance of self-management of DM2 of persons living with DM2, (2) there are factors that affect persons living with DM2 with respect to self-management and (3) there are ways in which professional nurses can assist persons living with DM2 in the self-management of their condition.
This article identified factors that diabetes nurse educators experienced in either assisting or hindering patients in self-management of their DM2. The diabetes nurse educators voiced their views on how professional nurses can provide support to the patients living with DM2.
2型糖尿病(DM2)的全球流行因高发病率和死亡率给政府和个人都带来了严重的健康和经济问题。南非是撒哈拉以南非洲地区DM2发病率第二高的国家。
本文描述了糖尿病护士教育工作者在DM2患者自我管理方面的经验。
本文涉及在南非纳尔逊·曼德拉湾市公立和私立医院糖尿病诊所工作的护士教育工作者。
使用半结构化访谈指南,从由三名参与者组成的焦点小组访谈和两次个人访谈中收集数据。访谈在参与者允许的情况下进行录音、转录,然后使用泰施数据分析模型进行编码。主题经研究者、两名主管和一名独立编码员协商一致确定。
确定了三个主题:(1)糖尿病护士教育工作者对DM2患者自我管理的重要性有清晰认识;(2)存在影响DM2患者自我管理的因素;(3)专业护士可以通过多种方式协助DM2患者进行病情自我管理。
本文确定了糖尿病护士教育工作者在协助或阻碍患者进行DM2自我管理方面所经历的因素。糖尿病护士教育工作者表达了他们对专业护士如何为DM2患者提供支持的看法。