Experiences of older vulnerable people with ischemic heart disease and their peer mentors: A qualitative process evaluation.

Aim: To understand the content and context of a realized peer mentor intervention, and to explore how mentors and mentees experienced the intervention.

Design: The study was designed as a qualitative process evaluation of a 24-week peer mentor intervention.

Methods: Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted from November 2021 to May 2022 in a purposeful sample of older vulnerable people with ischemic heart disease, referred to as mentees (n = 13), and their peer mentors (n = 12).

The significance of home-based portable pump chemotherapy for family caregivers to newly diagnosed patients with acute myeloid leukemia: A qualitative thematic analysis.

Objective: Life as a family caregiver of patients with cancer can be emotionally and practically challenging. Little is known of whether home-based chemotherapy of patients with acute myeloid leukemia places excessive pressure on family caregivers or decreases their burden. To explore the significance of home-based portable pump chemotherapy for family caregivers of patients newly diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.

Experience of family function, family involvement, and self-management in adult patients with type 2 diabetes: A thematic analysis.

Aim: To describe the patient's experience of family function and its importance in diabetes-related self-management.

Background: Many patients fail to reach the targeted glycemic level due to low self-management adherence. Knowledge is needed regarding the impact of family function on diabetes self-management.

Patient Assessment of Family Function, Glycemic Control and Quality of Life in Adult Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Incipient Complications.

Objectives: Family affects the perception of diabetes self-management in patients with diabetes. Family-related questionnaires have been used to assess family function, but the Brief Family Assessment Measure (Brief FAM-III) has not been used previously in a diabetes population. We aimed to determine whether the family function is associated with glycated hemoglobin levels and quality of life as potential predictors of diabetes self-management.

Supportive and non-supportive interactions in families with a type 2 diabetes patient: an integrative review.

Background: Type 2 diabetes and its management affect the patient and the close family potentially causing either psychological distress or increased sense of responsibility and collaboration in these families. Interactions between patient and family play an important role in maintaining lifestyle changes and diabetes self-management. The purpose of this integrative review was to summarise and assess published studies on the intra-family perspective of supportive and non-supportive interactions in families with a type 2 diabetes patient.