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World J Diabetes. Dec 15, 2014; 5(6): 796-808
Published online Dec 15, 2014. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v5.i6.796
Published online Dec 15, 2014. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v5.i6.796
Psychological aspects of diabetes care: Effecting behavioral change in patients
Boon-How Chew, Sazlina Shariff-Ghazali, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Aaron Fernandez, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Author contributions: Chew BH, Shariff-Ghazali S and Fernandez A contributed to this paper.
Correspondence to: Boon-How Chew, MD, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. chewboonhow@gmail.com
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Received: August 27, 2014
Revised: November 5, 2014
Accepted: November 17, 2014
Published online: December 15, 2014
Revised: November 5, 2014
Accepted: November 17, 2014
Published online: December 15, 2014
Core Tip
Core tip: Positive psychological health may sustain long-term coping efforts and protect patients from the negative consequences of prolonged emotional disorders, illness perception and thus facilitating diabetes self-management behaviors and better physical health. Having patients acquire valued personal beliefs and achievable standards of performance could strengthen self-regulation and self-efficacy leading to more positive experience and healthy behaviors. Furthermore, improved personal resources such as resilience would lead to better functioning of cognition and stronger will power, quality of life and disease control in patients with diabetes mellitus.