Abstract
The purpose of this study was to clarify coping behaviors helping to change feelings of difficulty caused by relationships into positive feelings during diabetic self-management. Data from adult diabetic outpatients were obtained using semi-structured interviews about difficult feelings and associated changes after patients had practiced diabetic self-management. Data were analyzed inductively.
Subjects who had felt that their “diet was burdensome in social contacts” displayed changes to positive feelings of “firm belief in the methods of self-management”, which involved “reducing feeling of burden from dietary requirements”, “confidence to undertake dietary self-management” and “satisfaction with adjustment of self-management”, after experiencing “conversion of perspective”, which involved “diabetic confession” and “reasonable management” which involved “fulfilling dietary self-management standards” and “responsibility evasion on work”.
Coping behaviors changing feelings of difficulty into positive feelings appear crucial for constructing and maintaining good relationships with others in diabetic self-management in social contacts.
