Psychodiabetology: The Psycho-Social Challenges of Diabetes

Dear Colleagues,

It may be common knowledge that suffering from diabetes has an impact on the patients’ well-being and that a person’s mental state influences the ways in which diabetes and the clinical state can be managed. There are consistent data about the bi-directional relations between depression and diabetes. A Special Issue is proposed to investigate the relations between diabetes and well-being, including more specific features of the mental state. The Special Issue will focus on specific findings about the cause–effect relations between such features. According to the current knowledge, the dependencies between the clinical state of diabetes and the mental state are multifactorial. Identifying any new variable that can be controlled may have important implications.

This Special Issue aims to explore the relations between the clinical state of diabetes and the psychological and social characteristics of persons with diabetes.

Prof. Dr. Andrzej Kokoszka
Guest Editor

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• diabetes
• mental state
• psychology
• psychosocial
• management
• HbA1c
• glycated hemoglobin
• depression
• stress
• complications
• psychodiabetology