Structure of Resilience among Japanese Adult Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A Qualitative Study.

Yonago Acta Med

Department of Adult and Elderly Nursing, School of Health Science, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago 683-8503, Japan.

Published: March 2017

Background: Resilience is the process of overcoming adversities and difficulties. We clarified the structure of resilience and its motivational power among adult Japanese patients with type 1 diabetes. This is likely to help ensure effective nursing support to empower patients with diabetes and help them recuperate and improve their personal lives.

Methods: Participants were 17 patients with type 1 diabetes, and data were collected using semi-structured interviews. Participants shared their experiences of coping with self-management and diabetes control issues, the meaning of living with diabetes, and their support from family and friends since their diagnosis. Glaser's grounded theory was used to analyze the data and the results were used to create a new model of resilience for type 1 diabetes.

Results: Five categories were extracted: "suffering from a guilty conscience," "suffering from an insulin-dependent body," "social disability," "a driving force to advancement," and "possessing a strategy to live with the disease."

Conclusion: The five categories formed two stages: preparatory resilience and resilience formation. Once patients recognized the presence of empathetic others, they could obtain better disease comprehension and cooperation. Recognizing this support system served as a "driving force to advancement" and was termed the "resilience battery." Through the resilience battery, patients shifted from preparatory resilience to "resilience formation," or acquiring "a strategy to live with the disease." To forge patient resilience, nurses should encourage disease comprehension and cooperation among patients' significant others. We further propose that high-quality nursing care would involve supporting patients' inner resilience.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5355838PMC

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