title: Factors influencing self-management in patients with type 2 diabetes: a quantitative systematic review protocol.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe a protocol for a quantitative systematic review, to identify critique and summarize factors that influence self-management education.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Self-management education enables patients to manage their condition successfully and it is associated with better self-care, good control over lifestyle and leading the best possible quality of life, notwithstanding the presence of a chronic disease. Type II Diabetes is a chronic disease that requires lifestyle adjustments and disease management to keep glycaemia and long-term complications under control. Education has to be customized and based on an assessment that includes factors influencing self-management, such as personal characteristics that can optimize the educational intervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  The protocol for the systematic review was conducted according to the guidelines of the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, York (UK).
  
  
  METHODS
  The review question was defined in terms of population, interventions, comparators, outcomes and study designs. The protocol included decisions about the review question, inclusion criteria, search strategy, study selection, data extraction, quality assessment, data synthesis and plans for dissemination. Funding for the review was confirmed on January 2011 by the Centre of Excellence for Nursing Scholarship in Rome.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An initial summary will be made by tabulating the data; the review will be reported in a narrative style and be developed according to the PRISMA guidelines. The protocol for the systematic review will allow us to identify, among the factors influencing self-management in people with Type II diabetes, the personal characteristics most relevant to the factors of motivation and empowerment. In addition, the systematic review will also identify an appropriate self-management model.
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences Department, University of Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Annamaria
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bagnasco
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences Department, University of Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Di Giacomo
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences Department, University of Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Da Rin Della Mora
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences Department, University of Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Catania
authors.affiliation: Member of the Centre of Excellence for Nursing Scholarship, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Turci
authors.affiliation: Centre of Excellence for Nursing Scholarship, President Ipasvi Rome Nursing Board, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Gennaro
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rocco
authors.affiliation: Health Sciences Department, University of Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Loredana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sasso
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010358:Patient Participation; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology*; D000078202:Systematic Reviews as Topic; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: assessment; diabetes; nursing; self-management; self-management behaviour; systematic review