TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosocial factors in diabetes control
T2 - Adjustment of insulin-treated adults
AU - Peyrot, M.
AU - McMurry, J. F.
PY - 1985/1/1
Y1 - 1985/1/1
N2 - Twenty insulin-treated diabetic adults were studied to identify psychosocial factors important in diabetic (blood glucose) control. Diabetic control was assessed by glycosylated hemoglobin, a measure of long-term glucose control. Subjects were equally divided between 'good' and 'poor' glucose control groups with sex balanced in each group. A multifactorial biopsychosocial model was proposed and tested. This model incorporated both direct (psychophysiologic) and indirect (behavioral) components. The behavioral variables investigated included predisposing (orientational), enabling (resource/barrier), and conditioning (inhibiting and motivating) factors. The psychophysiologic variables investigated were stress-response factors (elevating and dampening). Univariate and multivariate analysis demonstrated significant relationships between glucose control and each category of variables, using measures of diabetes knowledge and attitudes, health locus of control, and coping styles. The findings support both the stress-coping illness and health-belief/illness-behavior models of diabetic adjustment and control.
AB - Twenty insulin-treated diabetic adults were studied to identify psychosocial factors important in diabetic (blood glucose) control. Diabetic control was assessed by glycosylated hemoglobin, a measure of long-term glucose control. Subjects were equally divided between 'good' and 'poor' glucose control groups with sex balanced in each group. A multifactorial biopsychosocial model was proposed and tested. This model incorporated both direct (psychophysiologic) and indirect (behavioral) components. The behavioral variables investigated included predisposing (orientational), enabling (resource/barrier), and conditioning (inhibiting and motivating) factors. The psychophysiologic variables investigated were stress-response factors (elevating and dampening). Univariate and multivariate analysis demonstrated significant relationships between glucose control and each category of variables, using measures of diabetes knowledge and attitudes, health locus of control, and coping styles. The findings support both the stress-coping illness and health-belief/illness-behavior models of diabetic adjustment and control.
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U2 - 10.1097/00006842-198511000-00004
DO - 10.1097/00006842-198511000-00004
M3 - Article
C2 - 3906735
AN - SCOPUS:0022376901
SN - 0033-3174
VL - 47
SP - 542
EP - 557
JO - Psychosomatic medicine
JF - Psychosomatic medicine
IS - 6
ER -