Abstract

According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Diabetes Atlas, 415 million people have diabetes mellitus (DM) in 2015. Along with increasing number of diabetes prevalence, its complications are also currently increasing. Among diabetes complications, the rate of prevalence for nephropathy was 30- 40 % of diabetes patients in literature. For controlling the diabetes nephropathy (DN), patients should have the complicated self-care competence. The self-care for DN should be included the proper behaviors not only to control their glucose level, but also to manage their kidney dysfunction. Lots of patients have experienced the difficulties for managing those complicated situations. For example, studies reported that diabetes patients have confused of what kinds of food they can eat during hemodialysis. As such, self-care management for diet, physical activity, glucose monitoring, and medications according to changing their diabetes progress should be monitored and educated by health care providers. However, lots of studies have researched the DN self-care behavior as measuring the diabetes focused self-care behaviors. For better understanding the research trend in terms of measuring tool for assessing the DN self-care behaviors, integrative review is needed. Thus, this purpose of this study was to describe self-care research related to diabetic nephropathy patients and to analyze instrument for measurement of self-care. The findings from this review can be provided the information on what kinds of measurement the studies were used for DN and what limitations those instruments.

Author Details

Younghee Jun, MSN, RN; Jeonghwa Cho; Keumok Park; Youngshin Song

Sigma Membership

Non-member

Type

Poster

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

N/A

Research Approach

N/A

Keywords:

Diabetic Nephropathy, Scales, Self-Care

Conference Name

28th International Nursing Research Congress

Conference Host

Sigma Theta Tau International

Conference Location

Dublin, Ireland

Conference Year

2017

Rights Holder

All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.

All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.

All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Additional Files

download (77 kB)

Share

COinS
 

Integrative review of self-care measurement in diabetes nephropathy

Dublin, Ireland

According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Diabetes Atlas, 415 million people have diabetes mellitus (DM) in 2015. Along with increasing number of diabetes prevalence, its complications are also currently increasing. Among diabetes complications, the rate of prevalence for nephropathy was 30- 40 % of diabetes patients in literature. For controlling the diabetes nephropathy (DN), patients should have the complicated self-care competence. The self-care for DN should be included the proper behaviors not only to control their glucose level, but also to manage their kidney dysfunction. Lots of patients have experienced the difficulties for managing those complicated situations. For example, studies reported that diabetes patients have confused of what kinds of food they can eat during hemodialysis. As such, self-care management for diet, physical activity, glucose monitoring, and medications according to changing their diabetes progress should be monitored and educated by health care providers. However, lots of studies have researched the DN self-care behavior as measuring the diabetes focused self-care behaviors. For better understanding the research trend in terms of measuring tool for assessing the DN self-care behaviors, integrative review is needed. Thus, this purpose of this study was to describe self-care research related to diabetic nephropathy patients and to analyze instrument for measurement of self-care. The findings from this review can be provided the information on what kinds of measurement the studies were used for DN and what limitations those instruments.