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Couple’s Relationship With Diabetes: Means and Meanings for Management Success
Author(s) -
HoustonBarrett Ruth A.,
Wilson Colwick M.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2012.00322.x
Subject(s) - reciprocal , meaning (existential) , diabetes mellitus , psychology , regimen , situated , adaptation (eye) , self management , social psychology , psychotherapist , gerontology , developmental psychology , medicine , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , machine learning , computer science , endocrinology
Diabetes is a serious chronic illness that involves individuals, couples, and families in complex reciprocal interactions with the illness and other life dimensions. A major issue in diabetes management is how well the patient is able to follow the established medical regimen of selfcare. Situated within personal, physical, and social contexts, the meaning that a couple creates and the emotions they feel in their adaptation to living with diabetes and its demanding regimen can be viewed as the couple’s relationship with diabetes .