Diabetes care for people with mental illness. Version 1.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Diabetes care in people with severe mental illness: a qualitative study with service users and healthcare professionals.
IRAS ID
146802
Contact name
Alan Simpson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
City University London
Research summary
People with severe mental illness (SMI) are twice as likely to develop diabetes compared with the general population. Those with diabetes and SMI are also more likely to have unhealthy lifestyles than people without SMI and fewer than half reach the recommended target for blood glucose control. To improve diabetes management for people with SMI, it is necessary to understand the difficulties people experience and what they find helpful, as well as asking health professionals for their views about how best to deliver diabetes care for this population.
We will therefore interview 15 service users with diabetes and SMI, and 15 healthcare professionals (HCPs) from primary, secondary and community care to explore:
a) what aspect of their diabetes service users with SMI find most difficult to manage
b) the barriers and facilitators to enabling them to manage their diabetes
c) healthcare professionals’ views about diabetes care for people with SMI.REC name
South Central - Oxford C Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/SC/0274
Date of REC Opinion
6 May 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion