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“Everyone else gets ice cream here more often than I do—It burns me up” - Perspectives on Diabetes Care from Nursing Home Residents and their Doctors

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Geriatrics, January 2016
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Title
“Everyone else gets ice cream here more often than I do—It burns me up” - Perspectives on Diabetes Care from Nursing Home Residents and their Doctors
Published in
BMC Geriatrics, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12877-016-0199-0
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Caroline Barnhart, Keelan McClymont, Alex K. Smith, Alvin Au-Yeung, Sei J. Lee

Abstract

To explore the perspectives of nursing home (NH) residents with diabetes and their doctors regarding the burdens of living with diabetes and diabetes treatments. Qualitative study of nursing home residents aged 65 and older with diabetes (n = 14) and nursing home physicians (n = 9) at a Department of Veterans Affairs nursing home (known as the Community Living Center). A semi-structured interview was used to elicit nursing home residents' and physicians' perspectives on the burden of diabetes and diabetes treatments. Transcripts were analyzed using constant comparative methods. The mean age of the nursing home residents was 74; Most (93 %) were male and 50 % self-identified themselves as white. The mean age of nursing home physicians was 39 and 55 % were geriatricians. Dietary restrictions, loss of independence and fingersticks/insulin were noted to be the most burdensome aspects of diabetes. Nursing home residents with a more positive outlook were generally more engaged in their care, while nursing home residents with a more pessimistic outlook were less engaged, allowing their physicians to assume complete control of their care. While physicians noted the potential negative impact of dietary restrictions, nursing home residents' comments suggest that physicians underestimate the burden of dietary restrictions. Veterans Affairs nursing home residents were substantially burdened by their diabetes treatments, especially dietary restrictions and fingerstick monitoring. Since there is little evidence that dietary restrictions improve outcomes, fewer dietary restrictions may be appropriate and lead to lower treatment burdens for nursing home residents with diabetes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 52 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 6 11%
Student > Bachelor 6 11%
Student > Master 5 9%
Researcher 5 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 20 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 11 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 17%
Psychology 3 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 24 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 June 2019.
All research outputs
#7,878,286
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#1,863
of 3,241 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#128,263
of 401,899 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#32
of 66 outputs
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