title: Diabetes at work: a grounded-theory pilot study.
abstract: Diabetes at Work is a qualitative grounded-theory pilot study designed to examine the factors impacting older adults' experience managing diabetes in the workplace and maintaining gainful employment. Six working adults, 55 years and older, with Type 2 diabetes were interviewed from a symbolic interactionist perspective using grounded-theory methodology. Categories that arose from this study included minimalization, fearing the future, and taking up diabetes self-management at work. The results provide insight for occupational health nurses about the issues faced by older workers with chronic disease, a starting point for planning future interventions with this potentially vulnerable population.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6917, USA. ethomas@sonnet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Elizabeth Anne
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012648:Self Care