Relationship between sense of coherence and diabetes mellitus: a systematic review
Jesús Humberto Márquez-Palacios1, Libia Yanelli Yanez-Peñúñuri2, José Guadalupe Salazar-Estrada3
1Programa de post-grado en Psicología con Orientación en Calidad de Vida y Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara. Carretera Guadalajara, Ameca, km 45.5. 46600 Ameca Jalisco México. jsalazar@valles.udg.mx.
Abstract:
The aim was to synthesize the best scientific evidence on the effect of sense of coherence in disease development, treatment, and biomedical metabolic control indicators, as well as the complications involved for people at risk of developing diabetes and for diabetics. The systematic review method was implemented. Search and selection efforts of two independent reviewers on Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, Ebsco, Science Direct, and manuals databases, available until 2017, in Spanish and English, of the population aged 18 and over. From a total of 154 studies, 20 articles were included in the systematic review. Over half of the studies used the SOC-13 version to verify the sense of coherence and the most frequent indicator of metabolic control was glycated hemoglobin. In addition to this, 14 of the 20 studies found a statistically significant relationship between sense of coherence and diabetes. It is concluded that the sense of coherence has a strong correlation with diabetes in the different phases of the disease and is related to the reduction of risk for the development of the disease, a reduction of glycated hemoglobin values, and the appearance of diabetes mellitus-related complications.
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