“…Diabetes fatigue has vicious cyclic relationship with numerous factors, including diabetes symptoms, diabetic complications, other endocrine disorders, emotional distress, and lifestyle factors [16] and, in turn, it negatively influences emotions, lifestyle, and blood sugar control, increasing the risks for physical and psychological diabetes complications [17]. While diabetes fatigue has been conceptualized in several ways [16,17,18,19], the existing conceptual frameworks have been limited in their ability to comprehensively encompass the multidimensional characteristics of fatigue, including those related to biological, psychological, social, and environmental contexts. The dynamic biopsychosocial (DBPS) model provides a dynamic, ecological perspective of health, which views health as being determined by the interactions between biological, psychological, and social dynamics [20], and could be a useful conceptual framework for understanding the multidimensional properties of diabetes fatigue.…”