Expanding self-consciousness of health status for diabetes chronic complications among adults: a systematic review.

Objective: Self-consciousness is defined as a subject (I) then becomes the object (Me) associated with a present moment of self-experience in which one is aware of their experience without any reflexive judgment attached, a state commonly investigated in mindfulness studies. On the other hand, self-consciousness is viewed as a reflexive experience and, thus, as a synonym for self-reflection. Self-consciousness is an important determinant of behaviors.

Death risk among COVID-19 patients with diabetes mellitus.

Deaths from COVID-19 are increasing in patients with comorbidities. One of the most common comorbidities is diabetes mellitus. The researchers wanted to see how having diabetes affected the mortality rate of COVID-19 participants.

Are we ready to collaborate? The interprofessional collaborative competencies of healthcare professionals in the Global South context.

Background: Current evidence of interprofessional collaboration suggests the importance of measuring and identifying the current state of the health professions' interprofessional competencies. Therefore, this study was aimed at measuring the interprofessional competencies of health professionals in the Global South context using the validated CICS29.

Materials And Methods: This was a cross-sectional study involving 300 healthcare professionals of a newly established teaching hospital.

Social support as a mediator between depressive symptoms and self-care activities in adults patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Background: People with type 2 DM are at risk of experiencing depression, which in turn can affect their self-care activities. Recent evidence has shown that social support is beneficial in reducing the risk of depression and positively affecting increases in self-care activities. However, the role of social support in the relationship between depressive symptoms and self-care activities has not been studied.

Developing the hypoglycemia-nursing early warning score system (Hy-NEWSS): A pilot study.

Background: Severe hypoglycemia occurs in 6% of type 2 DM patients with a 6 to 7% mortality rate. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a higher rate of fatality among diabetes patients, at least 22% of COVID-19 deaths in Wuhan, China. Furthermore, the condition impairs physiological defense against recurrent hypoglycemia in the future.