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Self-Care across All Age Groups with and without Chronic Conditions

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Nursing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 March 2023) | Viewed by 3953

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Dear Colleagues,

It is widely recognized that self-care is essential for patients with chronic illnesses. However, for healthy aging, performing self-care (e.g., following recommended lifestyle changes) is crucial in order to prevent illnesses across all age groups, regardless of chronic conditions. Although supporting self-care management for individuals with and without chronic illness is a priority in the public health perspective, the complexities entailed in providing this support are not well understood. It could be that changing and maintaining health behaviors incorporate continuous decision-making in the context of individuals’ everyday lives. However, we might not have measures to capture the complexity of self-care processes, which could prevent us from understanding the adherence to self-care. It is also possible that we still might not understand the factors related to the process of self-care.

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on understanding self-care in individuals with and without chronic conditions and measuring it. Reviews of literature, theoretical papers, and papers reporting the results of interventions aimed at promoting self-care are also welcome.  

Dr. Kyoung Suk Lee
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • self-care
  • health promotion
  • healthy aging
  • chronic illnesses
  • measurement

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What Affects Quality of Life for People with Type 1 Diabetes?: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study
by Mi-Kyoung Cho and Mi-Young Kim
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(14), 7623; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph18147623 - 17 Jul 2021
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Abstract
This study investigated the association between the quality of life (QOL) and type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM), a lifelong disease that requires constant management. A complex set of factors influence the QOL of people with type 1 DM, and understanding these factors requires [...] Read more.
This study investigated the association between the quality of life (QOL) and type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM), a lifelong disease that requires constant management. A complex set of factors influence the QOL of people with type 1 DM, and understanding these factors requires further research. This research is a cross-sectional descriptive study. A survey on related variables such as acceptance of disease and efficacy for self-management of diabetes, was conducted among 111 participants with type 1 DM. The collected data were analyzed using PASW Statistics program, and factors influencing participants’ QOL were identified through hierarchical multiple regression. The study followed the Guidelines of Systematic Reporting of Examination in the STROBE checklist. The results showed that four variables exerted a significant effect on QOL (blood glucose level at hypoglycemia and complications in Model 1; efficacy for self-management of diabetes and acceptance and action in Model 2), and all the variables explained a majority of the variance in QOL. The results indicate that management of severe hypoglycemia and prevention of complications is crucial. Interventions should be developed to enhance coping abilities to improve efficacy for self-management for those with diabetes and promote their acceptance of the disease. Full article
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