Personal traits such as conscientiousness and diabetes self-efficacy should be considered to tailor interventions for reducing diabetes distress, moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach.
Both broad personal traits and disease-specific expectations qualify the outcomes of efficacious interventions. These findings reinforce the need to change from a one-size-fits-all approach to diabetes interventions to an approach that crafts clinical interventions in ways that fit the personal traits and skills of individual people.
Fisher et al. (Tue,) studied this question.