TY - JOUR T1 - Review: patients living with diabetes mellitus focus on learning to balance by assuming control for the management of their illness JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 132 LP - 132 DO - 10.1136/ebn.1.4.132 VL - 1 IS - 4 A2 - , Y1 - 1998/10/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/1/4/132.abstract N2 - Paterson BL, Thorne S, Dewis M. Adapting to and managing diabetes.Image J Nurs Sch1998 First Quarter;30:57–62.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed Question What is the “lived experience” of people who have diabetes mellitus? Unpublished and published studies (including dissertations, theses, articles, and book chapters) were identified by searching 6 databases (Sociofile, PsycLit, Dissertation Abstracts, CINAHL, Medline, and Allied Health); the Canadian Nurses Association library; and refereed nursing, social science, and allied health journals and books published from 1980 to July 1996.Studies were included if they were qualitative interpretive research reports of the experience of living with diabetes from the perspective of an insider and included participants with diagnosed diabetes.Data were analysed using meta-ethnographic synthesis (inductive analysis of data from individual studies, hypothesis development, and testing of hypothetical relations). Analyses of individual studies were reviewed by multiple researchers.43 reports of 38 studies were identified (6 phenomenological, 5 ethnographic, 2 case, 2 focus group, 9 exploratory, and 19 grounded theory study reports). Most reports included only participants who were white (n=33) or who had type 1 … ER -