From: The influence of social networks on self-management support: a metasynthesis
Study | Country | Method | Sample | SM focus | Network | Study details | ||||
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Partner | Children | Family | Group | Personal community | ||||||
Miller and Davis (2005) [21] | US | Focus groups; thematic analysis | Adults 21-65 with type 2 diabetes; White Americans | General | * | To examine the social support received by people with diabetes and its role in managing diabetes. | ||||
High level of education | ||||||||||
Sparud-Lundin et al. (2010) [22] | Sweden | Individual interviews, constant comparative analysis | 13 young adults, and 13 parents, internet communication between young people on diabetes website also included in analysis | General | * | To explore the meaning of interactions and support from parents and other significant others for young adults with type 1 diabetes. | ||||
White et al. (2007) [23] | Ireland | Focus groups, thematic content analysis | 4 patients with good HbA1C control) and 4 family members, median age 75; and 5 patients with poor HbA1C control) and 6 family members, median age 67; Older adults, type 2 diabetes | General | * | To explore the beliefs, attitudes and perceptions of adults with type 2 diabetes and their family members. | ||||
Beverly et al (2008) [24] | US | Focus groups; thematic analysis | 30 couples (person with diabetes and spouse); Middle-aged and older adults | Dietary changes | * | To determine how aspects of the spousal relationship translate into behaviour changes, especially adherence to a healthy diet. | ||||
Stone et al. (2005) [25] | UK | Semi-structured interviews; framework analysis | 20 respondents with diabetes; South Asians | General | * | To explore the experience and attitudes of primary care patients with diabetes living in a UK community with a high proportion of South Asian patients of Indian origin, with particular reference to patient empowerment. | ||||
White British | ||||||||||
Gorawara-Bhat et al. (2008) [26] | US | Open ended semi-structured interviews; thematic analysis | 28 people with diabetes (66-87 years); African A | General | * | To explore the role of social comparison with peers/family members in the self-management practices of older diabetes patients. | ||||
Women | ||||||||||
(predominantly) | ||||||||||
Chesla and Chun (2005) [27] | US | Group interviews, narrative and thematic analysis | 20 participants (person with diabetes and spouses) representing 16 families; Chinese Americans | General | * | To describe family responses to type 2 diabetes in Chinese Americans as reported by people with diabetes and spouses. | ||||
Beverly and Wray (2010) [28] | US | Focus groups; thematic analysis | 30 couples (persons with diabetes and spouses); Middle-aged and older adults | Exercise adherence | * | To illuminate the potentially key role of collective efficacy in exercise adherence in order to develop and test interventions that provides more effective support for adults with diabetes. | ||||
Laroche et al. (2009) [29] | US | Semi-structured interviews; thematic analysis | 24 adults (19 parents and 5 grandparents) with diabetes and child (10-17 years), and 24 children (12 male and 12 female); African A | General | * | To examine the role of children in their parents’ diabetes self-management, diet and exercise. | ||||
Latinos | ||||||||||
(inner city) | ||||||||||
Gallant et al. (2007) [30] | US | Focus groups; thematic analysis | 13 focus groups with 84 (65 years or older) with arthritis, diabetes, and/or heart disease; African A | General | * | To contribute to knowledge about older adults with chronic illness by identifying positive and negative influences of family and friends on self-management. | ||||
White A | ||||||||||
Carter-Edwards et al. (2004) [31] | US | Focus groups; thematic analysis | 3 focus groups, 12 African American women with diabetes (average age 49.3); African A | General | * | To evaluate the relationship between perceived social support among African American women with type 2 diabetes and self-management. | ||||
Women | ||||||||||
Ruston et al. (2013) [32] | UK | Semi-structured interviews; constant comparative method | 43 respondents (23 female and 20 male); Work environment, employees | General | * | To explore the perceptions and experiences of employees with diabetes. | ||||
Jones et al. (2008) [33] | US | Focus groups; thematic analysis | 21 people with diabetes 6 and family members/friends (27-85 years); African Americans | General | * | To examine the impact of family and friends on the management of persons with diabetes. | ||||
Sarkadi and Rosenqvist (2002) [34] | Sweden | Individual interviews and focus groups, thematic analysis | 5 interviews and 5 focus groups with 38 women, 44-80; Women | General | * | To systematically investigate the conflicting demands of social network involvement with illness management on women’s type 2 diabetes. | ||||
Essue et al. (2010) [35] | Australia | Semi-structured interviews; qualitative content analysis | 14 carers (45-85 years) of people with chronic heart failure, COPD, and diabetes | General | * | To describe the family careers’ contribution to the self-management partnership and To identify policy and practice implications that are relevant to improving the support available for informal care in Australia. | ||||
Laroche et al. (2008) [36] | US | Semi-structured interviews; thematic analysis | 29 interviews (14 adult-child pairs and one child); African A | Diet | * | To explore how adults with diabetes attempting to change their own diets approached providing food for their children and how their children reacted to dietary changes in the household. | ||||
Latinos | ||||||||||
(inner city) | ||||||||||
Kohinor et al. (2011) [37] | Netherlands | Semi-structured interviews; grounded theory | 32 diabetes patients (36-70 years); Surinamese | Disclosure | * | To explore why diabetes patients from ethnic minority populations either share or do not share their condition with people in their wider social network. | ||||
Kokanovic and Manderson (2006) [38] | Australia | In-depth interviews; thematic analysis | 16 immigrant women with type 2 diabetes; Immigrant women | General | * | To elucidate the social meanings and interpretations that immigrant women attach to the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, and the social support and professional advice they receive following this diagnosis. | ||||
Greek, Chinese, Tongan, Indian | ||||||||||
Atkinson et al. (2009) [39] | US | Focus groups, grounded theory | 4 focus groups in churches in south-eastern US, 3 with church leaders and one with programme participants; African Americans | Healthy lifestyle; diabetes prevention | * | To explore church members’ perspectives of implementation of church-based diabetes prevention programme with African American churches. | ||||
Church members | ||||||||||
Chlebowy et al. (2010) [40] | US | Focus groups; content analysis, thematic analysis | 38 adults (27 women, 11 men), 44-87 years, 7 focus groups; African Americans | General | * | To identify facilitators and barriers to self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus among urban African American adults. | ||||
Jepson et al. (2012) [41] | UK | In-depth interviews and focus groups; thematic analysis using both inductive and deductive coding | 59 purposefully selected Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani; and 10 key informants; South Asians | Physical activity | * | To explore the motivating and facilitating factors likely to increase physical activity for South Asian adults and their families. | ||||
Pistulka et al. (2012) [42] | US | Qualitative interviews; constant comparative method | 12 participants (8 women and 4 men), 40-65 years, 12 face to face interviews and 6 follow up follow up interviews; Korean American Immigrants | General | * | To examine the illness experience of Korean American immigrants with diabetes and hypertension. | ||||
Shaw et al. (2013) [43] | US | Focus groups and interviews; thematic analysis | 3 focus groups and 5 interviews with 13 adults with type 2 diabetes; American Indian/Alaska Native Adults | Diabetes | * | To explore perceived psychosocial needs and barriers to management of diabetes among AI/AN adults with type 2 diabetes. | ||||
Thompson et al. (2013) [44] | Australia | Ethnographic and participatory action research; unstructured and semi-structured interviews; thematic analysis | 23 purposefully selected community members over 16 years; Indigenous people | Physical activity | * | To explore and describe local perspectives, experiences and meanings of physical activity in two remote indigenous communities. | ||||
Ward et al. (2011) [45] | Australia | Semi-structured interviews; content thematic analysis | Participants with diabetes (17), COPD (3) and/or CHF (11), and family carers (3); Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people | General | * | To explore the lived experiences and to uncover the ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic illness experience informal unsolicited support from peers and family members. |