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Psychological States in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus

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Diabetes mellitus differs from many other chronic diseases in that it is accepted medical practice to involve patients suffering from it in monitoring and treating their own condition [1, 2]. This is especially so if the diabetes is of the insulin-dependent type [3], for which patients are required, when possible, to learn to administer injections of insulin to themselves. Even patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes are encouraged by medical and nursing practitioners to test their own blood sugar levels, take care of parts of their bodies which are made especially vulnerable by the disease, such as their feet, and to have an understanding of the disease process and how it affects them. Often these skills are developed and supported through self-help groups, such as the Diabetic Associations throughout Australia, and publications about diabetes for nonprofessionals, such as their magazine Diabetes Conquest. Encouragement of active participation in their treatment by patients through information-seeking and through mastery of illness-related skills is relatively rare among current chronic illness management practices in our society [4–7].

The work reported here was funded by the Australian Research Grants Committee, Grant No. 77/5046 R.

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  1. Psychiatric Consultation and Liaison Division, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, 92717, Irvine, CA, USA

    Louis A. Gottschalk M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Psychiatry and Director) (Professor of Psychiatry and Director)

  2. Psychophysiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, P.O. Box 70055, Santiago 7, Chile

    Fernando Lolas M. D. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Wollongong, P.O. Box 1144, 2500, Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia

    Linda Louise Viney (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Viney, L.L., Westbrook, M.T. (1986). Psychological States in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus. In: Gottschalk, L.A., Lolas, F., Viney, L.L. (eds) Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71085-8_12

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