Hierarchical clusters in families with type 2 diabetes:

SAGE Open Medicine

BeatrizGarcía-Solano¹ 

关键词: Family as a unit;    family health;    family characteristics;    family medicine;    family composition;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2050312115622957

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Families represent more than a set of individuals; family is more than a sum of its individual members. With this classification, nurses can identify the family health-illness beliefs obey family as a unit concept, and plan family inclusion into the type 2 diabetes treatment, whom is not considered in public policy, despite families share diet, exercise, and self-monitoring with a member who suffers type 2 diabetes. The aim of this study was to determine whether the characteristics, functionality, routines, and family and individual health in type 2 diabetes describes the differences and similarities between families to consider them as a unit. We performed an exploratory, descriptive hierarchical cluster analysis of 61 families using three instruments and a questionnaire, in addition to weight, height, body fat percentage, hemoglobin A1c, total cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein. The analysis produced three groups of families. Wilk’s lambda demonstrated stati...

【 授权许可】

CC BY