Amorim MMA, Souza AH, Coelho AK. Competences for self-care and self-control in diabetes mellitus type 2 in primary health care. World J Diabetes 2019; 10(8): 454-462 [PMID: 31523381 DOI: 10.4239/wjd.v10.i8.454]
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Maria Marta Amancio Amorim, Centro De Estudos Em Migrações E Relações Interculturais, Rua Herval 515, Belo Horizonte 302240010, Brazil. martamorim@hotmail.com
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
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Minireviews
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World J Diabetes. Aug 15, 2019; 10(8): 454-462 Published online Aug 15, 2019. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v10.i8.454
Competences for self-care and self-control in diabetes mellitus type 2 in primary health care
Maria Marta Amancio Amorim, Alessandra Hugo de Souza, Adriana Keller Coelho
Maria Marta Amancio Amorim, Centro De Estudos Em Migrações E Relações Interculturais, Belo Horizonte 302240010, Brazil
Alessandra Hugo de Souza, Programa de Pós graduação em Biologia de Vertebrados, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 30535901, Brazil
Adriana Keller Coelho, Geriatric Unit, Hospital do Instituto de Previdência dos Servidores do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 3010110, Brazil
Author contributions: Amorim MMA contributed to revision of bibliography and text formatting; de Souza AH contributed to translation of article with revision; Coelho AK contributed to text editing.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Maria Marta Amancio Amorim, Centro De Estudos Em Migrações E Relações Interculturais, Rua Herval 515, Belo Horizonte 302240010, Brazil. martamorim@hotmail.com
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Received: February 21, 2019 Peer-review started: February 22, 2019 First decision: June 3, 2019 Revised: June 7, 2019 Accepted: July 20, 2019 Article in press: July 20, 2019 Published online: August 15, 2019 Processing time: 175 Days and 17 Hours
Abstract
The purpose of the guidelines of self-care and self-control of type 2 diabetes mellitus proposed by the Brazilian Ministry of Health is to strengthen and qualify users and health care professionals through the integrality and longitudinality of care with this disease. This article aims to present the self-care and self-control of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus in objective terms, taking into account the current recommen-dations based on scientific evidence and also from the subjective point of view, that is, emphasizing the aspects related to experience and subjectivity of these people. Next, we present the essential skills for self-care and self-control of users and professionals working in primary health care.
Core tip: This article aims to present the self-care and self-control of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus under the objective point of view, taking into account the current recommendations based on scientific evidence, and also from the subjective point of view, emphasizing the aspects related to experience and the subjectivity of these people. Next, we present the essential skills for self-care and self-control of users and professionals working in primary health care.
