Impact of a Dyadic Intervention on Family Supporter Involvement in Helping Adults Manage Type 2 Diabetes.
J Gen Intern Med
; 37(4): 761-768, 2022 03.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Family support for adults' diabetes care is associated with improved self-management and outcomes, but healthcare providers lack structured ways to engage those supporters.OBJECTIVE:
Assess the impact of a patient-supporter diabetes management intervention on supporters' engagement in patients' diabetes care, support techniques, and caregiving experience.DESIGN:
Multivariate regression models examined between-group differences in support-related measures observed as part of a larger trial randomizing participants to a dyadic intervention versus usual care.PARTICIPANTS:
A total of 239 adults with type 2 diabetes and either A1c >8% or systolic blood pressure >160mmHg enrolled with a family supporter. INTERVENTION Health coaches provided training on positive support techniques and facilitated self-management information sharing and goal-setting. MAINMEASURES:
Patient and supporter reports at baseline and 12 months of supporter roles in diabetes care and caregiving experience.RESULTS:
At 12 months, intervention-assigned patients had higher odds of reporting increased supporter involvement in remembering medical appointments (AOR 2.74, 95% CI 1.44, 5.21), performing home testing (AOR 2.40, 95% CI 1.29, 4.46), accessing online portals (AOR 2.34, 95% CI 1.29, 4.30), deciding when to contact healthcare providers (AOR 2.12, 95% CI 1.15, 3.91), and refilling medications (AOR 2.10, 95% CI 1.14, 3.89), but not with attending medical appointments or with healthy eating and exercise. Intervention-assigned patients reported increased supporter use of autonomy supportive communication (+0.27 points on a 7-point scale, p=0.02) and goal-setting techniques (+0.30 points on a 5-point scale, p=0.01). There were no differences at 12 months in change scores measuring supporter distress about patients' diabetes or caregiving burden. Intervention-assigned supporters had significantly larger increases in satisfaction with health system support for their role (+0.88 points on a 10-point scale, p=0.01).CONCLUSIONS:
A dyadic patient-supporter intervention led to increased family supporter involvement in diabetes self-management and increased use of positive support techniques, without increasing caregiver stress.Key words
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
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Self-Management
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Gen Intern Med
Journal subject:
MEDICINA INTERNA
Year:
2022
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States