‘We tend to prioritise others and forget ourselves’: How women's caregiving responsibilities can facilitate or impede diabetes self‐management
Authors' conclusion
Young adult women with T2DM identified different ways that the roles and responsibilities in the family could affect their diabetes self-management. Providers and policymakers should develop health-promoting interventions that accommodate caregiving responsibilities.
Study context
- Population
- Black and/or Latina women aged 18–40 with T2D in the United States
- Participants
- 32 women
Methodological detailssecondary analysis, semi-structured interviews, conventional content analysis, online platforms and snowball sampling
- Secondary analysis
- Semi-structured interviews
- Conventional content analysis
- Online platforms and snowball sampling
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
- Caregiving responsibilities both motivate and disrupt diabetes self-management behaviours
- Caregiving largely meant care of children, but also adult family members and romantic partners
- Women were motivated to manage diabetes to prevent negative health effects on their children and to stay healthy to fulfil caregiving
- Caregiving competed for time, energy and money with self-management
- Struggling to balance caregiving and self-management caused stress felt to be intrinsically unhealthy and to undermine self-management
Original publication
‘We tend to prioritise others and forget ourselves’: How women's caregiving responsibilities can facilitate or impede diabetes self‐management. Diabet Med. Published 6 January 2023. doi:10.
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