About this Research Topic
Despite the omnipresence of time in the organization of care and in diabetes management, there is a lack of proposal to explore how the existing timeframe is understood and shared by caregivers, patients and relatives.
The scope of this research topic is to explore how temporalities are convened in the field of diabetes, considering that diabetes management relies on factors of an ethical, political, societal interpersonal and personal nature. To address the question, we invite authors to explore the following 5 sub-themes:
1. Health care system access and temporalities: how access to the health care system, as well as treatment and technology availability, influence the underpinning psychological states related to the future medical condition of patients and caregivers (temporal horizon). Additionally, any potential differences in low, middle-and high-income countries
2. Costs and temporalities: how costs and reimbursement, such as health insurance and out-of-the pocket cost, influence the temporalities of diabetes management (visit frequency and duration, follow-up issues, missing visit, referral to DSM educational interventions)
3. Technology and temporalities: how technology is influencing diabetes care (visits frequency, CGM alarms, data sharing) and patient-caregivers perception of time
4. Education and language about temporalities: time is a theme regularly invoked in the language used by caregivers, patients and relatives when discussing diabetes (meaning of HbA1c, risk of complications) and for educational purposes (duration of insulin action, glycemic index). However, temporalities are not invoked in a reflexive stance to favor empowerment and DSM (expected change in a duration time, temporal horizon, temporal disruption, past trauma)
5. Experience of living with diabetes and temporalities: how PLWD are concerned about daily tasks related to diabetes management and how they influence the diabetes experience and psychological state. The role of temporal horizon in diabetes distress has not been well determined. Considering empowerment as the ability to make decisions about the control of one's disease, the proposed timeline can be seen as a trigger of stress, relief or psychological trauma responsible for temporal projection disruption.
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Disclosure - David Beran has a Visiting Professorship from the Danish Diabetes Academy
Keywords: Temporalities, Diabetes mellitus, Disease Management, Diabetes Self-management, Education, Support, Temporal Horizon, Chronic Condition, Language
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