Background Receiving adequate support seems to be crucial to the success of self‐
management. Although different empirical studies separately examined patients' …

Background Diabetes distress is the negative emotional impact of living with diabetes. It has
tangible clinical importance, being associated with sub-optimal self-care and glycemic …

Background The number of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients and related treatment
costs are rapidly increasing. Consequentially, more cost-effective and efficient strategies for …

Background: Existing literature on the design of interventions and health policy about self-
management have tended to focus on individual-centred definitions of self-care and there is …

Objective Diabetic retinopathy remains the leading cause of blindness among working-age
US adults largely due to low screening rates. Rural populations face particularly greater …

Background: Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) have a central role in managing
their disease, but the effective adoption of self-management behaviours is often challenging …

This systematic review examines the characteristics and psychometric properties of the
instruments used to assess self-care behaviors among persons with type 2 diabetes …

Volume 35, Supplement 3, November/December 2009 and AADE's Scope of Practice,
Standards of Practice, and Standards of Professional Performance for Diabetes Educators …

Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by chronically elevated blood glucose
and high risk of comorbidities. In this article we report a metasynthesis of the 21st-Century …

In this study, we demonstrate a novel seawater-driven forward osmosis (FO) process to
recover calcium phosphate precipitates from digested sludge centrate without any chemical …