Key result
Social support dimensions were negatively correlated with depression, but self-management did not mediate the relationships between social support and health outcomes.
Why the study?
Social support promotes behavior change and self-management, but the mediating role of self-management between social support dimensions and health outcomes in African Americans with T2D needed evaluation.
Does self-management mediate the relationship between social support dimensions and health outcomes in African American adults with type 2 diabetes?
Cross-Sectional (n=102)
No
Does self-management mediate the relationship between social support dimensions and health outcomes in African American adults with type 2 diabetes?
In African American adults with type 2 diabetes, self-management does not appear to mediate the relationship between social support and health outcomes like depression.
Social support correlates with less depression independent of self-management; hypothesis-generating for support-based interventions in African American adults with type 2 diabetes.
Social support promotes behavior change and self-management that leads to improved health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of self-management in mediating the relationship between social support dimensions and health outcomes of African Americans with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Cross-sectional data were collected from 102 African Americans with T2D at an outpatient clinic. The majority of the participants were female, single, unemployed, and having low income. Functional support, the quality of the primary intimate relationship, and the number of support persons were negatively correlated with depression. Functional support and satisfaction with support explained a significant small amount of the variance in self-management. However, self-management did not mediate the relationships between social support dimensions and the health outcomes. The results of this study shed the light on the unique relationships of social support dimensions with health outcomes of African Americans with T2D.
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Al‐Dwaikat et al. (2019) conducted a cross-sectional in Type 2 diabetes (n=102). Social support dimensions was evaluated on Health outcomes (including depression) and self-management mediation. Social support dimensions were negatively correlated with depression, but self-management did not mediate the relationships between social support and health outcomes.
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