Effects of Nurse-led Psychosocial Intervention on Diabetes Distress and Glycemic Control among Patients withDiabetes : A Descriptive Literature Review

Sammanfattning: Background: With the increasing incidence of diabetes worldwide, the World HealthOrganization statistics that a total of 422 million adults suffer from diabetes worldwide,and the direct medical expenses caused by diabetes will also bring huge economiclosses to the world. Diabetes distress has become a serious mental problem of patientswith diabetes and will affect the glycemic control level of patients with diabetes, andultimately affect the quality of life of patients with diabetes.Aim: To describe the effect of nurse-led psychosocial intervention based on Roy'sadaptation theory on diabetes distress and glycemic control in diabetic patients.Method: A descriptive literature review was conducted by searching the literaturerelated to quantitative studies in database PubMed. Then, a total of 10 articles wereincluded and the data results were summarized and analyzed. Finally drawing thecorresponding conclusions.Results: Among the 10 articles, all of them elaborated the effects of nurse-ledpsychosocial intervention on diabetes distress, 7 articles argued that nurse-ledpsychosocial intervention may improve diabetes distress in diabetes patients, and theother 3 articles failed to clarify this point of view. There were 7 articles mentioned theeffects of nurse-led psychosocial intervention on glycemic control level, among which 5articles suggested that nurse-led psychosocial intervention methods could help improveglycemic control level, while the other literatures failed to clarify this point of view. Inaddition to the 7 articles, the other 3 articles did not indicate significant change ofglycemic control level.Conclusion: The nurse-led psychosocial interventions nurses may be a good way tohelp diabetes patients improve their diabetes distress and glycemic control level. Nursescan teach diabetes knowledge and skills through to psychosocial interventions helpdiabetes patients overcome obstacles, such as diabetes distress and improve their selfmanagement ability.Keywords: Nurses, psychosocial intervention, diabetes distress, glycemic controllevel