The incidence of diabetes is growing globally, impacting individuals and the broader society in different ways. Despite medical advances and scientific progress, the management of diabetes remains challenging for many people with diabetes, associated with poor physical and mental health outcomes.

The individual’s perception of diabetes plays an important part in the adjustment to living well with the condition. These perceptions are influenced by significant others and change throughout developmental stages. Interventions focusing on perceptions has shown improvements in diabetes outcomes and is also cost-effective, compared to medical interventions. Gaining a better understanding of perceptions of diabetes across lifespan will assist in the development of (cost-)effective interventions, focused on and supporting the person with diabetes and their relatives towards positive adjustment with this chronic condition.

The goal of this Research Topic is to highlight the importance of perceptions on diabetes management. As perceptions change through developmental stages, it is important get a better understanding of these perceptions across lifespan to see how it develops and to understand when to intervene to change perceptions to improve diabetes outcomes. The perceptions of significant others further influence those living with diabetes and gaining a better understanding of this could also assist in diabetes management.

In gathering more information on perceptions of diabetes across lifespan, we hope to facilitate the development of age appropriate, context sensitive interventions that is focused on the positive adjust to living with diabetes.

We welcome the submission of manuscripts including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Type 1 and type 2 diabetes
• Focus on the perceptions of diabetes. This can include, but is not restricted to illness perception, and cognitive therapy models.
• Interventions to change perception.
• People in different developmental stages living with diabetes, such as youth, adolescents, young adults, adults, elderly.
• Different role-players in diabetes management, including health care practitioners, people with diabetes, caregivers/parents, sibling, colleagues.

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Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare

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