Applying two minds theory to self-management of Type 1 diabetes

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Two minds theory (TMT) offers a new approach to changing health behavior. Here, TMT is applied to self-management of Type 1 diabetes. TMT can be conceptualized as a cycle where a stimulus produces an immediate Intuitive system response leading to health behavior, followed by a conscious narrative system response that is temporally delayed. Narrative responses do not produce behaviors directly but instead lead to conscious beliefs about past events and behavioral intentions for the future, both of which become part of the material considered by the intuitive system in selecting future behaviors. Because of the temporal delay between intuitive behavior and narrative interpretation, and the nonconscious nature of intuitive thought, there is often a gap between intentions and behaviors. This has implications for nursing practice. First, nurses should consider that patient-reported impressions of the past or future are fundamentally narrative system responses and understand that these may be less predictive of behavior than biopsychosocial measures that are more temporally immediate. Second, nurses can use TMT to inform new strategies for behavior change interventions. For diabetes self-management, nurses can encourage individuals to leverage environmental cues to prompt self-management (tricking the intuitive system), provide rewards for self-management (training the intuitive system), or engage the narrative system via planning, reframing, or attention practices for healthier future decisions. Overall, the TMT addresses the gap between intentions and behavior and should be further developed to inform behavioral health interventions.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

Research in nursing & health - 42(2019), 6 vom: 30. Dez., Seite 500-508

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Messer, Laurel H [VerfasserIn]
Sousa, Karen [VerfasserIn]
Cook, Paul F [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Behavior
Decision-making
Diabetes
Journal Article
Nursing theory
Self-management

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Date Completed 26.12.2019

Date Revised 08.01.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/nur.21983

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM30194492X