| How do structured education programmes work? An ethnographic investigation of the dose adjustment for normal eating (DAFNE) programme for type 1 diabetes patients in the UK. | |
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PMID: 20621746 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Structured education programmes (SEPs) for patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases are being widely adopted across the UK and elsewhere. Trials suggest they are more efficacious than didactic approaches, with patients showing improvements in learning, blood glucose control and quality of life. However, the reasons for these improvements are not well understood. To establish how, and why, SEPs work, we undertook a qualitative investigation of the Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating (DAFNE) programme. DAFNE is a well-established SEP for type 1 diabetes patients in the UK, which teaches them to alter their insulin doses in order to improve dietary freedom and blood glucose control. Six five-day courses were observed and in-depth interviews conducted with 30 patients aged 18-59 years on completion of the courses. Prior to their courses, many patients had developed protective behaviours and risk-avoiding strategies, such as running blood glucose levels high to avoid hypoglycaemia, or low to avoid developing complications. Implementing the insulin dose adjustments recommended on the course often required patients to move out of comfort zones and take what they had perceived, initially at least, as risks. In order to understand and explain course dynamics and outcomes, we draw upon Adams' concept of the risk-thermostat - which presupposes that all individuals are equipped with an internal instrument by which they gauge and respond to risk - and add a corporeal dimension to it. In doing so, we highlight the dynamic ways in which (embodied) group interactions and experiences, and their enmeshment with other aspects of course delivery, such as educator surveillance and employment of course rules, helped to enhance learning and promote patients' transformations into insulin dose adjusting subjects. This included inter-corporeal processes through which patients recalibrated their risk thermostats in light of the insulin dose adjustment experiences of others. |
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Authors:
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Julia Lawton; David Rankin |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2010-05-31 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Social science & medicine (1982) Volume: 71 ISSN: 1873-5347 ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Publication Date: 2010 Aug |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-07-12 Completed Date: 2010-08-11 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8303205 Medline TA: Soc Sci Med Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 486-93 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
Affiliation:
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Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, United Kingdom. J.Lawton@ed.ac.uk |
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Adolescent Adult Blood Glucose Combined Modality Therapy Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / diet therapy*, drug therapy Great Britain Humans Hypoglycemic Agents / administration & dosage* Insulin / administration & dosage* Interviews as Topic Middle Aged Patient Education as Topic / methods* Program Evaluation Qualitative Research Risk Young Adult |
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0/Blood Glucose; 0/Hypoglycemic Agents; 11061-68-0/Insulin |
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