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Assessment of socio demographic factors on termination of pregnancy in Ghana
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despite significant advances diagnosis treatment persistence inadequate metabolic control continues poor glycemic control may reflected failure diabetes selfmanagement patients well inadequate intervention strategies clinicians purpose systematic review summarize existing knowledge regarding various barriers diabetes management perspectives patients clinicians search pubmed cinahl eric psycinfo identified 1454 articles english published 1990 2009 addressing type 2 diabetes patients barriers clinicians barriers selfmanagement patients adherence attitude beliefs knowledge diabetes may affect diabetes selfmanagement culture language capabilities influence patients health beliefs attitudes health literacy thereby affecting diabetes selfmanagement influential factors include patients financial resources comorbidities social support clinicians attitude beliefs knowledge diabetes also influence diabetes management clinicians may influence patients perception effective communication skills wellintegrated health care system identifying barriers diabetes management necessary improve quality diabetes care including improvement metabolic control diabetes selfmanagement research considers barriers necessary developing interventions individuals type 2 diabetes