Psychotherapy Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Psychotherapy, including details on psychiatry, psychoanalysis, methods, outcomes.

Behavioral interventions for diabetes self-management.

Whittemore R

Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT 06536-0740, USA. robin.whittemore@yale.edu

This article synthesizes the research on behavioral interventions aimed at diabetes self-management, describes current trends in diabetes self-management, and proposes future directions for diabetes self-management care and research. Interventions that are multifaceted, tailored to the individual, and provided six months or longer demonstrate modest effects in improving diabetes-related outcomes. Improving access to behavioral interventions, maintaining the effects of behavioral interventions, and addressing the more complex social and environmental factors that contribute to behavior change are current challenges in diabetes self-management that warrant further attention and research.

Published 24 October 2006 in Nurs Clin North Am, 41(4): 641-54, viii.
Full-text of this article is available online (may require subscription).

© 2005-2008 Psychotherapy Research Today. All Rights Reserved.