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Fitzgerald S, Chronister J, Zheng QM, Chou CC. The Meaning of Social Support for Mental Health Service-Users: The Case Managers' Perspective. Community Ment Health J 2024:10.1007/s10597-024-01349-5. [PMID: 39230859 DOI: 10.1007/s10597-024-01349-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2024] [Accepted: 08/18/2024] [Indexed: 09/05/2024]
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This study sought to understand the unique types of social support salient to mental health service-users from the perspective of case managers. The sample consisted of case managers working in county mental health agencies in the southwest and west coast. Data was gathered from three focus groups and analyzed using NVivo 10 and Consensual Qualitative Research. Six themes were described including relational support, consistency support, validation and affirmation support, social connection support, day-to-day living support and vocational support. While the social support domains described in this study share conceptual underpinnings with traditional conceptualizations of support, our findings reveal unique types of support from the perspective of case managers. Findings from this study offer an important perspective-case managers-to the extant body of research investigating the meaning of social support for people with lived mental health experiences. Of particular interest is the finding that relational support, affirmative and validation support, and consistency support are salient case manager functions.
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- Sandra Fitzgerald
- Department of Counseling, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94132, USA.
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- Department of Counseling, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94132, USA
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- Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling Program, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
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Stenberg J, Hjelm K. Social support as perceived, provided and needed by family-members of migrants with type 2 diabetes - a qualitative study. BMC Public Health 2024; 24:1612. [PMID: 38886671 PMCID: PMC11181519 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-19101-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 06/11/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Social support provided by a family member has been found to have a buffering effect on distress and is associated with better diabetes self-care. This study explores the meaning of social support, as described by close family members of foreign-born people living with type 2 diabetes (PWDM) in Sweden. It also explores the support provided by family members, and the support they need to be able to support the PWDM. METHODS Qualitative explorative study, semi-structured interviews for data collection. Qualitative content analysis based on a theoretical framework on social support. Purposive sample of 13 family members, 18-52-years-old, born in countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Russia. RESULTS The meaning of support was described as social and emotional. Most participants described a stressful situation; feelings of sadness/worry about the risk of the PWDM developing complications added to a strained life situation from which one could not opt out. Frequent daily contacts in a family network were evident, particularly by children trained as healthcare professionals. Caring for a family member was considered a filial piety, but it was also a chance to reciprocate. The support provided was mainly informational (e.g., reminders about nutritional intake), but it was also instrumental/practical (administering medicines, helping with economy/logistics, planning/cooking meals, basic care) and emotional (sharing meals, thoughts, and activities). The support the family members needed was getting first-hand information by attending the physician visits, being able to book appointments themselves at suitable times, and preventing the withholding of important information about the PWDM. They also desired an open telephone-line, oral and written information, particularly on diet. CONCLUSIONS To family-members, supporting the PWDM was normal and a filial piety. Support provided and needed was not only informational but also instrumental/practical and emotional. In diabetes care, addressing foreign-born individuals, diabetes education needs to be developed, also including family members. Informational material, particularly on diet, and improved access to healthcare and information about the healthcare system have the potential to increase family members' control over the situation and prevent a negative trajectory in caregiving with perceived demands causing high levels of stress.
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- Jenny Stenberg
- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, PO Box 564, Uppsala, S-751 22, Sweden
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, PO Box 564, Uppsala, S-751 22, Sweden.
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Objectives To derive improved understanding of the implicit meanings of challenges in daily life from the perspective of persons with type 2 diabetes. Methods A meta-synthesis was conducted with an interpretive and constructivist approach. Four databases were searched for articles published between 2007 and 2011, producing 37 articles for analysis. Van Deurzen’s life world theory was applied as an analytic grid. Results Challenges in daily life with type 2 diabetes could be understood as living in a tension between opposing forces, implying a struggle with inevitable paradoxes: living in the present and for the future, trusting oneself while relying on others, and being normal while feeling changed and different. Discussion This synthesis adds knowledge to previous understanding of living with type 2 diabetes, revealing the complexity of daily life when struggling with a lifelong illness. Person-centred care could be used to understand what challenges diabetes may cause in family and working life and the ambivalent feelings the illness can lead to. Future research is needed to implement and evaluate a person-centred care in practice. Since new qualitative research is continuously added to this topic, metasyntheses should be undertaken regularly.
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- Inga-Britt Lindh
- Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Health and Society, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Health and Society, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden
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Knutsen IR, Foss IC, Todorova E, Roukova P, Kennedy A, Portillo MC, Regaira E, Serrano-Gil M, Lionis C, Angelaki A, Rogers A. Negotiating Diet in Networks: A Cross-European Study of the Experiences of Managing Type 2 Diabetes. QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 2017; 27:299-310. [PMID: 26515920 DOI: 10.1177/1049732315610318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Food and diet are central aspects of diabetes self-management but the relevance of social networks for the way people are supported in their management of type 2 diabetes is often under-acknowledged. In this article, we aimed to explore the coalescences between these two phenomena among people with type 2 diabetes to increase knowledge of interactions within social network related to daily diet. The article is based on 125 qualitative interviews with individuals with type 2 diabetes from five European countries. Based on assumptions that people with chronic illnesses reshape relationships through negotiation, we analyzed negotiations of food at different levels of network. The respondents' reflections indicate that there are complex negotiations that influence self-management and food, including support, knowledge, and relationships within families; attention and openness in social situations; and the premises and norms of society.
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- 2 University of World and National Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- 3 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- 4 University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Foss C, Knutsen I, Kennedy A, Todorova E, Wensing M, Lionis C, Portillo MC, Serrano-Gil M, Koetsenruijter J, Mujika A, Rogers A. Connectivity, contest and the ties of self-management support for type 2 diabetes: a meta-synthesis of qualitative literature. HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY 2016; 24:672-686. [PMID: 26429546 DOI: 10.1111/hsc.12272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/13/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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This paper presents a meta-synthesis of the literature on community-based self-management to support experiences of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The aim was to synthesise findings on both formal and informal self-management support with particular reference to the relevance and influence of the social context operating at different levels. The review forms part of EU-WISE, a project financed through EU's 7th Framework Programme. The review was performed by systematically searching MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and Web of Science for English language publications between 2005 and 2014 presenting research conducted in Europe on the experiences and perspectives of self-management concerns of patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The search yielded 587 abstracts, which were reduced through search strategy refinement and eligibility and quality criteria to 29 papers that were included in the review. This review highlights the relevance of contextual factors operating at micro- and macro-levels. The synthesis yielded six second-order thematic constructs relating to self-management: sense of agency and identity, the significance and meaning of social networks, minimal disruption of everyday life, economic hardship, the problem of assigning patients' responsibility and structural influences of primary care. Using a line of argument synthesis, these themes were revisited, and a third-order construct, connectivity emerged which refers to how links in daily life are interwoven with peoples' social networks, local communities, economic and ideological conditions in society in a way which support self-management activities. This meta-synthesis indicates a need to heed the notion of connectivity as a means of mobilising and supporting the self-management strategies of people with type 2 diabetes in everyday life.
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- Christina Foss
- Department of Nursing Sciences, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Nursing Sciences, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- NIHR CLAHRC Wessex, Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Hampshire, UK
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- Department of Economic Sociology, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Stichting Katholieke Universiteit, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
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- Stichting Katholieke Universiteit, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- NIHR CLAHRC Wessex, Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Hampshire, UK
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Penn ML, Kennedy AP, Vassilev II, Chew-Graham CA, Protheroe J, Rogers A, Monks T. Modelling self-management pathways for people with diabetes in primary care. BMC FAMILY PRACTICE 2015; 16:112. [PMID: 26330096 PMCID: PMC4557856 DOI: 10.1186/s12875-015-0325-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2015] [Accepted: 08/17/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Self-management support to facilitate people with type 2 diabetes to effectively manage their condition is complex to implement. Organisational and system elements operating in relation to providing optimal self-management support in primary care are poorly understood. We have applied operational research techniques to model pathways in primary care to explore and illuminate the processes and points where people struggle to find self-management support. METHODS Primary care clinicians and support staff in 21 NHS general practices created maps to represent their experience of patients' progress through the system following diagnosis. These were collated into a combined pathway. Following consideration of how patients reduce dependency on the system to become enhanced self-managers, a model was created to show the influences on patients' pathways to self-management. RESULTS Following establishment of diagnosis and treatment, appointment frequency decreases and patient self-management is expected to increase. However, capacity to consistently assess self-management capabilities; provide self-management support; or enhance patient-led self-care activities is missing from the pathways. Appointment frequencies are orientated to bio-medical monitoring rather than increasing the ability to mobilise resources or undertake self-management activities. CONCLUSIONS The model provides a clear visual picture of the complexities implicated in achieving optimal self-management support. Self-management is quickly hidden from view in a system orientated to treatment delivery rather than to enhancing patient self-management. The model created highlights the limited self-management support currently provided and illuminates points where service change might impact on providing support for self-management. Ensuring professionals are aware of locally available support and people's existing network support has potential to provide appropriate and timely direction to community facilities and the mobilisation of resources.
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- Marion L Penn
- Southampton General Hospital, Mailpoint 11, AA72, South Academic Block, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK.
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- NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research (CLAHRC) Wessex, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
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- NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research (CLAHRC) Wessex, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
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- Research Institute, Primary Care & Health Sciences, and NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research (CLAHRC) West Midlands, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
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- Research Institute, Primary Care & Health Sciences, and NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research (CLAHRC) West Midlands, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
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- NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research (CLAHRC) Wessex, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
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- Southampton General Hospital, Mailpoint 11, AA72, South Academic Block, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK.
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Bruun C, Guassora AD, Nielsen ABS, Siersma V, Holstein PE, de Fine Olivarius N. Motivation, effort and life circumstances as predictors of foot ulcers and amputations in people with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diabet Med 2014; 31:1468-76. [PMID: 25047765 DOI: 10.1111/dme.12551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Revised: 05/11/2014] [Accepted: 07/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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AIM To investigate the predictive value of both patients' motivation and effort in their management of Type 2 diabetes and their life circumstances for the development of foot ulcers and amputations. METHODS This study was based on the Diabetes Care in General Practice study and Danish population and health registers. The associations between patient motivation, effort and life circumstances and foot ulcer prevalence 6 years after diabetes diagnosis and the incidence of amputation in the following 13 years were analysed using odds ratios from logistic regression and hazard ratios from Cox regression models, respectively. RESULTS Foot ulcer prevalence 6 years after diabetes diagnosis was 2.93% (95% CI 1.86-4.00) among 956 patients. General practitioners' indication of 'poor' vs 'very good' patient motivation for diabetes management was associated with higher foot ulcer prevalence (odds ratio 6.11, 95% CI 1.22-30.61). The same trend was seen for 'poor' vs 'good' influence of the patient's own effort in diabetes treatment (odds ratio 7.06, 95% CI 2.65-18.84). Of 1058 patients examined at 6-year follow-up, 45 experienced amputation during the following 13 years. 'Poor' vs 'good' influence of the patients' own effort was associated with amputation (hazard ratio 7.12, 95% CI 3.40-14.92). When general practitioners assessed the influence of patients' life circumstances as 'poor' vs 'good', the amputation incidence increased (hazard ratio 2.97, 95% CI 1.22-7.24). 'Poor' vs 'very good' patient motivation was also associated with a higher amputation incidence (hazard ratio 7.57, 95% CI 2.43-23.57), although not in fully adjusted models. CONCLUSIONS General practitioners' existing knowledge of patients' life circumstances, motivation and effort in diabetes management should be included in treatment strategies to prevent foot complications.
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- C Bruun
- The Research Unit for General Practice and Section of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Berterö C, Hjelm K. Social support as described by foreign-born persons diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus and living in Sweden. Nurs Health Sci 2011; 12:507-14. [PMID: 21210931 DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2010.00569.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The aim of this study was to explore and describe the meaning of support and its impact on the life situation of foreign-born persons diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus and living in Sweden in relation to gender, age, and the duration of the disease. Mixed methods were used on a purposive sample of 34 foreign-born adults who had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Qualitative data were collected by semi-structured interviews and quantitative data were collected by the Norbeck Social Support Questionnaire (NSSQ). The meaning of "support" was described by the participants as medical support, information support, and aiding support to learn to manage diabetes. Support influenced the participants' entire life and their need for it was related to the severity of the diabetes and differences regarding age and gender. The participants scored low on the NSSQ regarding total emotional support, total aid, and total function and 42% had lost an important relationship during the last year. Their marital status had no impact on emotional support but aid was significant. Medical support, with regular follow-up and information, is important in obtaining affirmation and aids in learning to manage diabetes mellitus.
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- Carina Berterö
- Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Linköping, Linköping School of Health Science and Social Work, Linné University of Växjö, Växjö, Sweden.
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Vassilev I, Rogers A, Sanders C, Kennedy A, Blickem C, Protheroe J, Bower P, Kirk S, Chew-Graham C, Morris R. Social networks, social capital and chronic illness self-management: a realist review. Chronic Illn 2011; 7:60-86. [PMID: 20921033 DOI: 10.1177/1742395310383338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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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 growing recognition of the need to extend consideration beyond individual factors, which determine self-care, to examine wider influences such as the health service, the family and the wider social context. AIMS To explore the theoretical and empirical links between social networks, social capital and the self-care practices associated with chronic illness work and management in the context of people's everyday lives. METHOD A realist review method was used to search and appraise relevant quantitative and qualitative literature. FINDINGS The review findings indicate that social networks play an important part in the management of long-term conditions. We found that social networks tend to be defined narrowly and are primarily used as a way of acknowledging the significance of context. There is insufficient discussion in the literature of the specific types of networks that support or undermine self-care as well as an understanding of the processes involved. This necessitates shifting the emphasis of self-care towards community and network-centred approaches, which may also prove more appropriate for engaging people in socially and economically deprived contexts.
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- Ivaylo Vassilev
- Health Sciences Research Group-Primary Care, School of Community Based Medicine, University of Manchester, UK.
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