Transforming mental well-being for people with diabetes: research recommendations from Diabetes UK's 2019 Diabetes and Mental Well-Being Workshop
Transforming mental well-being for people with diabetes: research recommendations from Diabetes UK's 2019 Diabetes and Mental Well-Being Workshop
Aims: To identify key gaps in the research evidence base that could help to improve the mental well-being of people with diabetes, and to provide recommendations to researchers and research funders on how best to address them.
Methods: A 2-day international research workshop was conducted, bringing together research experts in diabetes and in mental health, people living with diabetes and healthcare professionals.
Results: The following key areas needing increased financial investment in research were identified: understanding the mechanisms underlying depression; understanding the multifactorial impact of social stigma; improving the language used by healthcare professionals; supporting people who find it difficult to engage with their diabetes; supporting significant others; supporting people with diabetes and eating disorders; improving models of care by learning from best practice; the potential benefits of screening and managing diabetes distress in routine diabetes care pathways; primary prevention of mental health issues at the time of diagnosis of diabetes; establishing the effectiveness of diabetes therapies on mood and other mental health issues; and understanding the impact of current diabetes technologies on mental health. Research recommendations as to how to address each of these priority areas were also developed.
Conclusions: This inaugural position statement outlines recommendations to address the urgent unmet need related to the mental well-being of people living with diabetes, and calls on the research community and funders to develop research programmes and strategies to reduce this need.
1-7
Wylie, T. A.F.
dc704641-acab-45f8-a58b-b643ea945690
Shah, C.
18d989c9-e1fe-420f-b030-2f733b7c23b9
Connor, R.
eed7314a-ee53-4297-b02a-5122b370695e
Farmer, A. J.
64fb9236-2a12-462f-940c-36b6b030ea9a
Ismail, K.
db94a03a-0e36-4f89-9bbd-eac94a0174f7
Millar, B.
19976059-ce1a-4910-a16f-406284824a55
Morris, A.
6e00b629-f6bb-4541-a4e2-f87abd7c7527
Reynolds, R. M.
b95eb80d-72d0-4d62-9033-941d4b5b678d
Robertson, E.
ce3941d5-f9e1-4013-85ae-d69d7275687c
Swindell, R.
4449ab53-e6c3-4416-a097-bc1bfbe9c1c8
Warren, E.
dfaaae2c-fca6-45ad-a706-ebcddfaeb8d0
Holt, R. I.G.
d54202e1-fcf6-4a17-a320-9f32d7024393
Wylie, T. A.F.
dc704641-acab-45f8-a58b-b643ea945690
Shah, C.
18d989c9-e1fe-420f-b030-2f733b7c23b9
Connor, R.
eed7314a-ee53-4297-b02a-5122b370695e
Farmer, A. J.
64fb9236-2a12-462f-940c-36b6b030ea9a
Ismail, K.
db94a03a-0e36-4f89-9bbd-eac94a0174f7
Millar, B.
19976059-ce1a-4910-a16f-406284824a55
Morris, A.
6e00b629-f6bb-4541-a4e2-f87abd7c7527
Reynolds, R. M.
b95eb80d-72d0-4d62-9033-941d4b5b678d
Robertson, E.
ce3941d5-f9e1-4013-85ae-d69d7275687c
Swindell, R.
4449ab53-e6c3-4416-a097-bc1bfbe9c1c8
Warren, E.
dfaaae2c-fca6-45ad-a706-ebcddfaeb8d0
Holt, R. I.G.
d54202e1-fcf6-4a17-a320-9f32d7024393
Wylie, T. A.F., Shah, C., Connor, R., Farmer, A. J., Ismail, K., Millar, B., Morris, A., Reynolds, R. M., Robertson, E., Swindell, R., Warren, E. and Holt, R. I.G.
(2019)
Transforming mental well-being for people with diabetes: research recommendations from Diabetes UK's 2019 Diabetes and Mental Well-Being Workshop.
Diabetic Medicine, .
(doi:10.1111/dme.14048).
Abstract
Aims: To identify key gaps in the research evidence base that could help to improve the mental well-being of people with diabetes, and to provide recommendations to researchers and research funders on how best to address them.
Methods: A 2-day international research workshop was conducted, bringing together research experts in diabetes and in mental health, people living with diabetes and healthcare professionals.
Results: The following key areas needing increased financial investment in research were identified: understanding the mechanisms underlying depression; understanding the multifactorial impact of social stigma; improving the language used by healthcare professionals; supporting people who find it difficult to engage with their diabetes; supporting significant others; supporting people with diabetes and eating disorders; improving models of care by learning from best practice; the potential benefits of screening and managing diabetes distress in routine diabetes care pathways; primary prevention of mental health issues at the time of diagnosis of diabetes; establishing the effectiveness of diabetes therapies on mood and other mental health issues; and understanding the impact of current diabetes technologies on mental health. Research recommendations as to how to address each of these priority areas were also developed.
Conclusions: This inaugural position statement outlines recommendations to address the urgent unmet need related to the mental well-being of people living with diabetes, and calls on the research community and funders to develop research programmes and strategies to reduce this need.
Text
Wylie_et_al-2019-Diabetic_Medicine
- Version of Record
More information
Accepted/In Press date: 6 June 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 8 June 2019
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 432341
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/432341
ISSN: 0742-3071
PURE UUID: cb8873ef-5579-40fc-962d-c4d846cb82b0
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 11 Jul 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:19
Export record
Altmetrics
Contributors
Author:
T. A.F. Wylie
Author:
C. Shah
Author:
R. Connor
Author:
A. J. Farmer
Author:
K. Ismail
Author:
B. Millar
Author:
A. Morris
Author:
R. M. Reynolds
Author:
E. Robertson
Author:
R. Swindell
Author:
E. Warren
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics
