Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Examination and contextualisation of the psychosocial responses of people with diabetes and evaluation of their potential impact on diabetes self-management.
• Critical appraisal of existing theory-based psychosocial interventions and evaluate their potential usefulness in the management of diabetes.
• Evaluation and understanding of the psychosocial impact of living with a serious condition such as diabetes on health-related quality of life.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Design evidence based strategies for responding to challenges to effective working with people with diabetes e.g. impact of discrimination or depression, age, cultural differences.

1. Impact of a diagnosis of diabetes

2. How people adapt to life with a chronic illness

3. How families adapt to life with a chronic illness

4. Helping people with diabetes to learn in clinic and beyond

5. Approaches to the management of maladaptive responses

6. Introduction to depression

7. The impact of ethnicity, culture and religion

8. Dealing with discrimination

Teaching and learning methods

The understanding of the psychosocial processes involved in management of diabetes is acquired through group discovery, group work, role play, peer learning, tutorials, problem-solving approaches and coursework.

Self directed learning- students will be encouraged to undertake extensive self directed studies, to improve both breadth and depth of their knowledge. This time will partly be preparation for assessments.

The taught components for this module are generally as follows. Group discovery, group work, role play, peer learning and problem-solving approaches are threaded throughout the module. 10% of time is spent on tutorials and 10% is delivered as lectures.

Teaching may be delivered face-to-face, or online using both live online teaching and pre-recorded sessions, or may be a blended combination of all three methods of delivery.

Resources & Reading list

Journal Articles

Peyrot M, Burns KK, Davies M, et al (2013). Diabetes Attitudes Wishes and Needs 2 (DAWN2): a multinational, multi-stakeholder study of psychosocial issues in diabetes and person-centred diabetes care. Diabetes Res Clin Pract, 99(2), pp. 174-184.

Kovacs Burns K, Nicolucci A, Holt RIG, et al. (2013). Diabetes Attitudes, Wishes and Needs second study (DAWN2): Cross-national benchmarking indicators for family members living with people with diabetes. Diabet Med, 30, pp. 778-788.

Barnard KD, Peyrot M, Holt RIG. (2012). Psychosocial support for people with diabetes: past, present and future. Diabet Med, 29, pp. 358-1360.

Channon S, Hambly H, Robling M, Bennert K, Gregory JW and the DEPICTED Study Team (2010). Meeting the psychosocial needs of children with diabetes within routine clinical practice.. Diabetic Medicine, 27(10), pp. 209-211.

Textbooks

Joint NHS Diabetes and Diabetes UK working group (2010). Emotional and Psychological Support and Care in Diabetes: Report from the emotional and psychological support working group of NHS Diabetes and Diabetes UK. London: Department of Health (NHS Diabetes).

Barnard, KD. and Lloyd, CE. (Editors) (2012). Psychology and Diabetes Care: A Practical Guide. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.

Assessment strategy

The assessment for the module provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate achievement of the module learning outcomes. There will be 2 assessment components: case study report and individual oral presentation. The pass mark for assessments is 50%. Compensation is allowed between summative assessments and can be carried forward to the final mark if the qualifying mark of 40% is reached.

If you have failed the module, you will have the opportunity to submit work at the next referral (re-sit) opportunity for all components where you have not achieved the pass mark. Marks for components which were passed will be carried forward. You must achieve the pass mark in all referred components. On passing your referrals, your final module mark will be capped at 50%.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External