[The care for the diabetic patient and family repercussion].
This study aimed to understand the repercussions in the family of the care offered after the implementation of a diabetes education program. We interviewed six relatives of diabetes patients from a university center in Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brazil, in 2007. Thematic data analysis made it possible to identify three themes: relatives recognize that the Center constitutes a differential for adherence to the food plan, physical activity and medication; the Center is acknowledged as an educative space to get together and control diabetes; the patient as an element that multiplies and expands the knowledge about diabetes in the family. The results indicate that the education program favorably affected the family, expanding its knowledge repertoire about treatment, and that the family core's support is fundamental in treatment adherence.
Zanetti
Maria Lúcia
ML
Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP.
Biagg
Marília Voltolini
MV
dos Santos
Manoel Antônio
MA
Péres
Denise Siqueira
DS
Teixeira
Carla Regina Souza
CR
D000368:Aged; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy*; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged