Abstract
Diabetes is a serious chronic illness that involves individuals, couples, and families in complex reciprocal interactions with the illness and other life dimensions. A major issue in diabetes management is how well the patient is able to follow the established medical regimen of selfcare. Situated within personal, physical, and social contexts, the meaning that a couple creates and the emotions they feel in their adaptation to living with diabetes and its demanding regimen can be viewed as the couple's relationship with diabetes. © 2012 American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 92-105 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Journal of Marital and Family Therapy |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Social Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Sociology and Political Science
Keywords
- Spouses/psychology
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Male
- Young Adult
- Diabetes Mellitus/psychology
- Adult
- Female
- Interviews as Topic
- Aged
- Qualitative Research
- Interpersonal Relations
- Self Care