Psychological Care as an Interdisciplinary Approach in the Management of Diabetes: A Narrative Review of Literature

Abstract

Objective: Diabetes, a serious chronic disease, demands a lot of patients in terms of daily self-care and often complicated treatment. Psychological problems are prevalent among people with diabetes. Burden with daily restrictions to diet and activity, risks of the treatment, fear of losing metabolic control and disease progression may furthermore reduce quality of life and aggravate psychological condition. This paper provides a current overview of prevalence, screening and general psychological managements in diabetes according to the worldwide recommendations. In addiction it updates the medical literature refer to Poland. Materials and methods: The search was conducted in Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect. The final set of 75 articles, include 33 papers that refer to psychological condition assessment tools. Results: The analysis for this review has been packaged into themes in order to generate a very useful and practical tool for all health professionals. It summarized in systematic and comprehensive way all psychological states that can appear in patients with diabetes. The most prevalent and important problems are: diabetes distress, depression, anxiety disorders, disordered eating behavior, and cognitive impairment/dementia. Conclusions: All worldwide guidelines strongly recommend psychological and social care as integrated part of the management of the diabetes. Healthy psychological state with proper screening, monitoring and the management could help in reaching therapeutic success and better quality of life.