TY - JOUR
T1 - Situating stress
T2 - Lessons from lay discourses on diabetes
AU - Schoenberg, Nancy E.
AU - Drew, Elaine M.
AU - Stoller, Eleanor Palo
AU - Kart, Cary S.
PY - 2005/6
Y1 - 2005/6
N2 - In response to the serious toll diabetes takes on health and resources, researchers increasingly are examining physical and psychological pathways that affect and are affected by diabetes, including stress. Although biomedical researchers and practitioners are beginning to recognize the association between stress and diabetes onset and management, laypersons have long-standing and extensive insights into the multiple ways in which stress is associated with the diabetes disease process. In this article, we examine lay perspectives on stress and diabetes among a multiethnic sample of 80 adults. Participants suggest varying arenas in which stress intersects with diabetes, including stress as implicated in the origin of diabetes, as a threat to maintaining glycemic control, as a challenge to self-management, and as a precursor to and a consequence of diabetes complications. An improved understanding of such perspective s may enhance appropriate disease management and develop a more valid conceptualization of stress in research efforts.
AB - In response to the serious toll diabetes takes on health and resources, researchers increasingly are examining physical and psychological pathways that affect and are affected by diabetes, including stress. Although biomedical researchers and practitioners are beginning to recognize the association between stress and diabetes onset and management, laypersons have long-standing and extensive insights into the multiple ways in which stress is associated with the diabetes disease process. In this article, we examine lay perspectives on stress and diabetes among a multiethnic sample of 80 adults. Participants suggest varying arenas in which stress intersects with diabetes, including stress as implicated in the origin of diabetes, as a threat to maintaining glycemic control, as a challenge to self-management, and as a precursor to and a consequence of diabetes complications. An improved understanding of such perspective s may enhance appropriate disease management and develop a more valid conceptualization of stress in research efforts.
KW - African Americans
KW - Diabetes mellitus
KW - Explanatory models
KW - Great Lakes Indians
KW - Mexican Americans
KW - Rural residents
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U2 - 10.1525/maq.2005.19.2.171
DO - 10.1525/maq.2005.19.2.171
M3 - Article
C2 - 15974326
AN - SCOPUS:22144472980
SN - 0745-5194
VL - 19
SP - 171
EP - 193
JO - Medical Anthropology Quarterly
JF - Medical Anthropology Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -