Self-management of diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

BackgroundThe prevalence of diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa has increased rapidly over the last years. Self-management is a key element for the proper management, but strategies are currently lacking in this context. This systematic review aims to describe the level of self-management among persons living with type 2 diabetes mellitus in sub-Saharan Africa.MethodRelevant databases including PubMed, Web of Science and Google Scholar were searched up to September 2016. Studies reporting self-management behavior of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus and living in sub-Saharan Africa were included.ResultsA total of 550 abstracts and 109 full-text articles were assessed. Forty-three studies, mainly observational, met the inclusion criteria. The studies showed that patients rarely self-monitored their glucose levels, had low frequency/duration of physical activity, moderately adhered to recommended dietary and medication behavior, had poor level of knowledge regarding diabetes related complications and sought traditional or herbal medicines beside of their biomedical treatment. The analysis also revealed a lack of studies on psychosocial aspects.ConclusionExcept for the psychosocial area, there is a good amount of recent studies on self-management behavior of type 2 diabetes mellitus sub-Saharan Africa. These studies indicate that self-management in sub-Saharan Africa is poor and therefore a serious threat to the health of individuals and the health systems capacity.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  BMC Public Health

• Publication date

  2018-09-29

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/s12889-018-6050-0PMID 30268115PMCID 6162903
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• Evidence on psychosocial aspects of diabetes self-management was scarce.

  Confidence 0.95

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• Self-management behavior was generally poor, with rare self-monitoring of blood glucose, low physical activity, only moderate adherence to diet and medication, poor knowledge of diabetes-related complications, and use of traditional or herbal medicines alongside biomedical treatment.

  Confidence 0.97

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• Forty-three studies met the inclusion criteria for examining self-management in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus living in sub-Saharan Africa.

  Confidence 0.98

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• dietary adherence

  behavior

  Following recommended dietary guidance for diabetes management.

  Aliases: diet adherence, recommended diet

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• medication adherence

  behavior

  Following prescribed diabetes medication instructions and schedules.

  Aliases: drug adherence

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• physical activity

  behavior

  Body movement or exercise performed as part of lifestyle management for diabetes.

  Aliases: exercise

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• psychosocial aspects

  topic

  Social and psychological dimensions of diabetes care, such as beliefs, support, stress, and coping.

  Aliases: psychosocial factors

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• self-management

  behavior

  The set of day-to-day behaviors people with diabetes use to manage their condition, including monitoring, diet, activity, medication use, and related practices.

  Aliases: diabetes self-management

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• self-monitoring of blood glucose

  behavior

  The practice of checking blood glucose levels by patients themselves as part of diabetes care.

  Aliases: glucose monitoring, blood glucose monitoring

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• sub-saharan africa

  region

  The geographic region of Africa south of the Sahara that defines the population and setting covered by the review.

  Aliases: SSA

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• traditional or herbal medicines

  treatment

  Non-biomedical remedies used by patients, including traditional therapies and plant-based preparations.

  Aliases: herbal medicines, traditional medicines

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• type 2 diabetes mellitus

  condition

  A chronic metabolic condition characterized by insulin resistance and impaired glucose regulation, which is the target disease of the reviewed studies.

  Aliases: T2DM, type 2 diabetes

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