Spiritual and Religious Beliefs and Practices, and Social Support's Relationship to Diabetes Self-Care Activities in African Americans

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• Alternative Title:
  Diabetes Educ
• Personal Author:
  Watkins, Yashika J. ; Quinn, Lauretta T. ; Ruggiero, Laurie ; Quinn, Michael T. ; Choi, Young-Ku
• Description:
  Purpose
  
  The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among spiritual and religious beliefs and practices, social support, and diabetes self-care activities in African Americans with type 2 diabetes, hypothesizing that there would be a positive association.
  
  Method
  
  This cohort study used a cross-sectional design that focused on baseline data from a larger randomized control trial. Diabetes self-care activities (Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities; SDSCA) and sociodemographic characteristics were assessed, in addition to spiritual and religious beliefs and practices and social support using the Systems of Belief Inventory (SBI) subscale I (beliefs and practices) and subscale II (social support).
  
  Results
  
  There were 132 participants: most were female, middle-aged, obese, single, high school-educated, and not employed. Using Pearson correlation matrices, there were significant relationships between spiritual and religious beliefs and practices and general diet. Additional significant relationships were found for social support with general diet, specific diet, and foot care. Using multiple linear regression, social support was a significant predictor for general diet, specific diet, and foot care. Gender was a significant predictor for specific diet, and income was a significant predictor for blood glucose testing.
  
  Conclusions
  
  The findings of this study highlight the importance of spiritual and religious beliefs and practices and social support in diabetes self-care activities. Future research should focus on determining how providers integrate patients' beliefs and practices and social support into clinical practice and include those in behavior change interventions.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Black Or African Amercian Blood Glucose Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring Body Mass Index Cross-Sectional Studies Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Educational Status Female Health Behavior Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Hemoglobin A, Glycosylated Humans Male Middle Aged Midwestern United States Religion Religion And Medicine Self Care Social Class Social Support Spirituality Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Source:
  Diabetes Educ. 39(2):231-239.
• Pubmed ID:
  23411653
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3859187
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R25 CA057699/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States ; R01 NR010313/NR/NINR NIH HHS/United States ; T01 CD000189-01/CD/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States ; R25 CA057699-18/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States ; 5R01 NR010313/NR/NINR NIH HHS/United States ; T01 CD000189/CD/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  39
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:848288675b0ff63f3b4d67dfc808d73d5fd72fef8d5d90f2f441b07eb71fb827
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/29801/cdc_29801_DS1.pdf
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