Type 2 Diabetes Education: Literature Review Week 6

Literature Review Comparison
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Introduction
A comparative review of the research articles provided in the literature evaluation table as well as in the PICOT statement of the capstone project will be presented in this paper. A comparison is carried out between the research questions, sample populations as well as the limitations of the study. Recommendations will also be added to the paper. This will be in aid to describe the support given to the PICOT by the research currently being carried out. The PICOT question is: In adult patients of age 18 – 45 years with type-2 diabetes mellitus (P) how does diet education (I) compared to handouts (C) promote patient’s dietary patterns and general diabetes self-care (O) after 10 weeks of implementation (T)?
Research Questions Comparison
From the research articles, there is a great range of research questions which are mainly based on the age when adherence to T2DM by the patients depending on their life and the type of treatment that they are undergoing. Additionally, the research questions are also revolving around the dietary needs and the risks they pose to adults in being diagnosed with T2DM. some studies have also gone a notch higher trying to find out the differences between the impacts of type-2 diabetes mellitus in ethnic groups (Antonio et al., 2019). Further, the research questions also want to find out the impacts that other self-management courses have in managing diabetes, as Herre et al., (2016), puts it, “…how people participating in diabetes self‐management courses with other people with type 2 diabetes and how they perceive this influences their health and ability to self‐manage the disease…”. However, the research questions can all be summarized down to the effects that diet education has to the patients suffering from type-2 diabetes mellitus.
Sample Populations Comparison
The sample populations used in the studies are individuals diagnosed with type-2 diabetes mellitus who are between 18-45 years of age who are either at hospitals who are undergoing dietary of dietary patterns and general self-care are past the tenth week of this education. Some studies have however used patients who have not yet started the education and in this case, home visits were scheduled for the research (Troughton et al., 2016). Nevertheless, other studies have devoted research to people of particular ethnic communities to determine the effects of dietary practice as well as a physical and cultural activity to the patient. The impacts between different types of care between different sets of patients have also been discussed. In the research studies, the dietary patterns and risks have also been considered at the detail, not forgetting the barriers and the approaches to different group education methods. The number of participants used varies from as few as 20 while other studies have used more than three hundred participants. Random selection of the patients has been used in most of the studies to determine the effects of diet to type-2 diabetes mellitus patients.
Limitations of Study Comparison
Despite some of the studies having a high number of participants, other studies have used fewe...