Type 2 Diabetes: Interventional Study

Bckground While modern lifestyles and medical care have certainly improved the longevity of humans in the developed world, and contributed to a greater quality of life scenario, those same lifestyles have engendered a number of issues that contribute to disease. Lack of proper diet, fast food, high fat and carbohydrate diets without adequate fruits and vegetables, lack of exercise, smoking and alcohol contribute to an epidemic of obesity which, in turn, contributes to a serious metabolic disorder called Diabetes Mellitus Type 2. While not managed by insulin injections, it is nevertheless quite serious and has a number of progressing symptoms that, if not treated properly, can result in cardiovascular, renal and neurological problems, as well as amputation, ocular issues, and even cognitive dysfunction.

This essay will focus on type 2 diabetes, which is becoming one of the fast growing chronic health conditions in the United Kingdom (UK). Approximately 700 people are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes each day in the UK (Diabetes Uk, (2014)a). It is costing the NHS about £10billion pounds each year to treat diabetes along with its complication and it is expected to rise in the next couple of years (Diabetes UK, (2014)b).

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Yoga has been shown to be effective as an adjunctive treatment for a wide variety of disorders, including epilepsy, diabetes, heart disease, insomnia, and chronic pain (Streeter et al., 2012; van der Kolk, 2014). Streeter et al. (2012) propose that yoga is helpful in such a wide variety of conditions because it reduces allostatic load in the stress response symptom, decreases sympathetic nervous system activity, increases parasympathetic nervous system activity, and increases gamma amino-butyric acid (GABA) levels. Overall, yoga is a practice that may help the body return to a more optimal state of

Steinbeck and colleagues (2012) examined the impact of group based diabetes self-management education (GBDS) on the clinical, lifestyle and psychosocial outcomes among type II diabetes patients by reviewing and extracting data from 21 research studies. Analyses of the data showed lowering of the blood glucose levels and glycated hemoglobin in 1503 patients out of the total 2833 participants within 12 months of participation in the GBDS intervention (Steinbeck et al. 2012). Improvement in self-management skills was also noticed among the participants (Steinbeck et al. 2012).

Participants engaged in twenty weekly yoga sessions that lasted for an hour each. The yoga training had four key components: respiratory training, postural training, relaxation training, and concentration training (Jensen & Kenny, 2004, p. 206). “The control group engaged in cooperative games and activities that involve the skills of talking and listening, turn taking, sharing equipment, and talk time.” This group met for one hour once a month (Jensen & Kenny, 2004, p.

Aaron is a 25-year-old Caucasian (Hispanic/white) male who is over weight, he was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and has a long history of sever asthma. Aaron is a full time college student majoring in graphic design and works part time at GameStop during the week. He is a very sedentary individual and spends most of his time playing games or watching TV indoors. On occasions he spends time going to hockey games and parties with his friends but does not spend much time doing any physical activities. Aaron has had sever asthma since he was a child and has been taking a variety of medications from and early age. Up till the age of 18 Aaron too anti-inflammatories, albuterol the generic name is albuterol sulphate inhalation solution and some of the Brand names are ProAir HFA, ProAir

The methods the authors in this article use in their research with adults with type 2 diabetes were participants in this study were 130 adults who reported being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The participation criteria were: age 18 or older, understand the English language, having no signs of cognitive damage, having no medical problems that would prevent them from walking for exercise, and not being pregnant. The participants in this study 67% identified as African American, 25% of identified as Caucasian, and 3% identified as Native American. The Control Group of this research study consisted of 66 participants, 72% identified as African American 20%, 2% identified as Hispanic and 3% identified as Native American. The participants of this study were recruited from low-income areas in North Central Florida and were awarded a total of $60 dollars for their participation in this research study.

Type 2 Diabetes is a continuing epidemic in the United States, particularly among African Americans. According to the American Diabetes Association (n.d.): "African Americans are 70% more likely to have diagnosed diabetes compared to Non-Hispanic Caucasians." The two most prominent health disparities implicated in Type 2 Diabetes with African Americans are: proportionally higher rates of diagnosis and disease-related complications (Byers et al, 2016). Notably, "ineffective patient-provider communication" and "disconnection" between a patient's diagnosis and their culture/lifestyle are thought to contribute to these disparities (Kirk et al, 2014). This disconnect between biological and social reality is likely due to ineffectual patient-provider

Patient wished to schedule an appointment with a counselor/educator, to develop a plan of action to assist in planning steps to improve health, diabetes control, weight loss, increase physical activity, not incur repeat back injury/pain and address the impact of menopause upon all health concerns. In addition she focused strongly on the aspect of facing all of these concerns alone. Priority number one knowledge of community support systems. Janiszewski, O’Brian and Lipman (2015) emphasized the importance of diabetes education interventions, which utilize a team approach improved patient engagement and expanded upon the ability to provide support needs of the diabetic patient. Community team members

Type 2 diabetes is a very well known disease throughout the US. There are about 27 million people in the US with the disease and 86 million others have prediabetes which means their blood glucose is not right but also not high enough to be diabetes yet. 208,000 people under the age of twenty have been diagnosed with either Type 1 or 2 Diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a highly dominant and long-lasting metabolic disorder (Mukherjee 439). WHO suspects that by the year of 2025 up to 200-300 million people worldwide will have developed type 2 diabetes (Hussain 318). Approximately half of the risk factor for individuals with type 2 diabetes is due to environmental contact and to genetics (Hussain 318). It is collectively known for grown-ups to have type 2 diabetes, but youngsters can also have this disease. Type 2 diabetes can be greatly affected by people’s poor workout habits and what they eat.

Cardiovascular disease is a global burden and by changing risk factors such as increasing physical activity and reducing stress by relaxation can lower the incidence of the disease (Hartley, Dyakova, Holmes, Clarke, Lee, Ernst, & Rees, 2014) The study had 800 participants with high risk factors of the cardiovascular disease and were recruited to 11 study trials. After eight months of this ongoing study, Hartley and Colleagues (2014) found that any form of yoga showed reduction in the systolic and diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, and an increase in high-density lipoprotein. Since patients with the cardiovascular disease are unable to perform rigorous exercises, yoga was concluded to be an ideal choice for them. Participants, who

Yoga has been associated with stress. The larger the amount of stress a person has, the less likely that person is to feel in control of themselves and their surroundings. Yoga has also been linked to a person’s health and wellbeing. During a one week experiment, a researcher did yoga once a day at 7:00 pm for a half hour. A survey was taken twice, in hour intervals, after the yoga session was completed, at 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm. The surveys are what was used to find the data that created the results of the experiment. One type of yoga, integrated yoga, was used throughout the week. The results concluded yoga helps relieve stress for one hour after the session was completed, but was stressed again shortly after that hour was finished. Different styles of yoga classes could be offered and more times could be made available at the Elmen Center. Yoga is currently offered at 4:30 pm in the Back Alley, but more class times could be 5:30 pm and 6:30 pm. Different styles include hot yoga, iyengar yoga, or hatha yoga. To improve evaluations, a person could add questions about their level of stress before and after the yoga class. These improvements will allow researchers to see if the results are true for the majority of people.

The health behavior that was chosen to promote during our campaign was yoga. We encouraged students, staff, and faculty members at Knox College to partake in yoga classes offered by the school in order to reduce stress and target a particular health/illness outcome. The main physical health/illness outcome targeted in this campaign was reduced blood pressure. Yoga is also seen to improve cardiovascular health. We chose to focus on the benefits of yoga to improve blood pressure and cardiovascular health instead of just one or the other because most of the studies that we found while researching mentioned both decreased blood pressure and improved cardiovascular health occurring from practicing yoga.