BACKGROUND The number of elderly individuals with diabetes is dramatically increasing.Diabetes is a long-term condition and a noncommunicable disease and requires intensive daily self-management.Understanding of self-...BACKGROUND The number of elderly individuals with diabetes is dramatically increasing.Diabetes is a long-term condition and a noncommunicable disease and requires intensive daily self-management.Understanding of self-management from the patients’perspectives is important to nurses,healthcare providers,and researchers and benefits people by improving their self-management skills.AIM To examine and synthesize qualitative studies that explore the experiences of elderly people in self-managing diabetes.METHODS Electronic databases were searched,including MEDLINE,CINAH,PsycINFO,PubMed,CNKI,and WANFADATA.Relevant research was identified by manually searching reference lists and gray literature.Only English and Chinese publications were included.The Critical Appraisal Skills Program was used to assess the quality of the research.The Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research approach was used to assess the confidence of the findings.RESULTS A total of 10 qualitative studies were included,and content analysis was performed.Five themes were identified:The need for knowledge about diabetes care,support systems,functional decline,attitudes toward diabetes,and healthy lifestyle challenges.CONCLUSION This present review provides a deep and broad understanding of the experiences in the self-management of diabetes and can be valuable to nursing practice and provide recommendations for future research.展开更多
Objective:To explore experiences of Chinese nurses who study for Master of Science in Professional Practice(health care)in the United Kingdom.Methods:A qualitative approach was applied,consisting of semi-structured te...Objective:To explore experiences of Chinese nurses who study for Master of Science in Professional Practice(health care)in the United Kingdom.Methods:A qualitative approach was applied,consisting of semi-structured telephone interviews(n=8).The Colaizzi seven-step framework analysis method was used to extract themes.Results:The themes that emerged are as follows:(1)gains from studying overseas,(2)difficulties during studying,and(3)impacts of learning experience on work.The gains for nurses studying overseas include the improvement of scientific research capabilities,reconstruction of critical thinking,and development of reflection ability.Difficulties while studying mainly include language barrier,strict assessment,and boring life.Conclusions:The education of nursing postgraduate attaches impor tance to the cultivation of thinking.Nurses are very interested in nursing research including qualitative and quantitative methods.Nurses encountered language barriers in their study and life even though they knew a cer tain level of English.展开更多
文摘BACKGROUND The number of elderly individuals with diabetes is dramatically increasing.Diabetes is a long-term condition and a noncommunicable disease and requires intensive daily self-management.Understanding of self-management from the patients’perspectives is important to nurses,healthcare providers,and researchers and benefits people by improving their self-management skills.AIM To examine and synthesize qualitative studies that explore the experiences of elderly people in self-managing diabetes.METHODS Electronic databases were searched,including MEDLINE,CINAH,PsycINFO,PubMed,CNKI,and WANFADATA.Relevant research was identified by manually searching reference lists and gray literature.Only English and Chinese publications were included.The Critical Appraisal Skills Program was used to assess the quality of the research.The Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research approach was used to assess the confidence of the findings.RESULTS A total of 10 qualitative studies were included,and content analysis was performed.Five themes were identified:The need for knowledge about diabetes care,support systems,functional decline,attitudes toward diabetes,and healthy lifestyle challenges.CONCLUSION This present review provides a deep and broad understanding of the experiences in the self-management of diabetes and can be valuable to nursing practice and provide recommendations for future research.
基金supported by the Shenzhen Nanshan Science and Technology Bureau Program(No.2020130)。
文摘Objective:To explore experiences of Chinese nurses who study for Master of Science in Professional Practice(health care)in the United Kingdom.Methods:A qualitative approach was applied,consisting of semi-structured telephone interviews(n=8).The Colaizzi seven-step framework analysis method was used to extract themes.Results:The themes that emerged are as follows:(1)gains from studying overseas,(2)difficulties during studying,and(3)impacts of learning experience on work.The gains for nurses studying overseas include the improvement of scientific research capabilities,reconstruction of critical thinking,and development of reflection ability.Difficulties while studying mainly include language barrier,strict assessment,and boring life.Conclusions:The education of nursing postgraduate attaches impor tance to the cultivation of thinking.Nurses are very interested in nursing research including qualitative and quantitative methods.Nurses encountered language barriers in their study and life even though they knew a cer tain level of English.
