Social Support and Type II Diabetes in Older Married Hispanic Americans
Description:
Undergraduate thesis exploring psychosocial factors of type II diabetes in older married adults of the Hispanic American population. It is proposed that social support mitigates the effect of psychosocial problems on self-care behavior and posited that greater social support in the form of familial and spousal relationships is related to better health outcomes, specifically better self-reported disease self-management of type II diabetes in married Hispanics.
Date:
April 22, 2014
Creator:
Delk, Jenna
Partner:
UNT Honors College