ession and diabetic symptoms are widely known to result in a lack of resourceful coping skills and poor health maintenance behaviors. The conceptual model presented by the authors is that adaptation to chronic diabetes and depression requires long-term lifestyle behavioral changes.
A second statement of purpose presented y Zauszniewski and Chung (2001, p. 115) affirmed this: "the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of severity of symptoms of co-existing diabetes and depression on health practices of young and middle-aged women." The theory of learned resourcefulness set against learned helplessness was instrumental in shaping the study.
As is generally the case in research studies, Zauszniewski and Chung (2001) presented t
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