Table 1.
Included Publications and Extracted Data
| Author | Year | Title | Country | Study aim | Study design | Population | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aguilar, R. B. | 2012 | Managing type 2 diabetes in men | United States | Exploration of coping strategies of men with type 2 diabetes | Review | Men with type 2 diabetes | NA |
| Ahlmark, N., & Dindler, C. | 2017 | Mænd i København. Formativ procesevaluering af peer-til-peer projekt for mænd i risiko for type 2 diabetes | Denmark | Evaluation of a peer-to-peer intervention directed at men at risk of type 2 diabetes | Evaluation consisting of participant observation, individual interviews and focus groups | Men working as peers and single men at risk of type 2 diabetes | Ten men recruited as peers and three male peer participants |
| Arnskov, K., & Diabetesforeningen | 2019 | Treatment of type 2 diabetes (Behandling af type 2 diabetes) 2019 | Denmark | Study of gendered differences in perceptions and self-management of type 2 diabetes | Survey | Members of a Danish diabetes patient organization | 715 men and women |
| August, K., & Sorkin, D. | 2010 | Marital status and gender differences in managing a chronic illness: The function of health-related social control | United States | Exploring the influence of social network (spouse) for management of type 2 diabetes | Survey | Married and unmarried patients with type 2 diabetes | 1447 patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes |
| August, K., Kelly, C. S., & Markey, C. H. | 2021 | Reciprocity and personality in diet-related spousal involvement among older couples managing diabetes: The role of gender | United States | Exploring the role of gender for spousal involvement in patients’ management of type 2 diabetes (diet) and the influence of personality traits on experiences with spousal support | Cross-sectional study based on a survey | Couples in which at least one is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes | 148 couples |
| Broom, D., & Lenagh-Maguire, A. | 2010 | Gendered configurations of diabetes: from rules to exceptions | Australia | Investigating how gender influences the experiences of self-managing type 2 diabetes from a relational perspective on gender | Interviews | Men and women living with type 2 diabetes | 119 men and women |
| Cherrington, A., Ayala, G., Scarinci, I. et al. | 2011 | Developing a family-based diabetes program for Latino Immigrants: do men and women face the same barriers? | United States | Examining the barriers and facilitators to diabetes self-management among Latino immigrants with diabetes and gendered differences | Focus group interviews | Latino men and women | 21 men and 24 women |
| Fekete, E. M. | 2007 | Gender and illness role influences on social control interactions and psycho-social well-being of couples living with type 2 diabetes | United States | Exploring spousal support using social role theory—examining patterns of interactions and psychosocial well-being of couples in which one is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes | Survey | Couples in which at least one is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes | 240 patients and spouses |
| Gafvels, C., & Wandell, P. E. | 2006 | Coping strategies in men and women with type 2 diabetes in Swedish primary care | Sweden | Exploring coping strategies among men and women with type 2 diabetes in relation to demographic, medical, socioeconomic and psychosocial situation | Survey combined with analysis of medical data | Swedish-born patients with type 2 diabetes | 232 men and women (121 men/111 women) |
| Hawkins, J. | 2019 | Type 2 diabetes self-management in Non-Hispanic Black men: A current state of the literature | United States | Mapping the scope and content of research focusing on self-management of type 2 diabetes in Non-Hispanic Black men | Literature review | Publications focusing on non-Hispanic black men’s experiences | NA |
| Hawkins, J., Mitchell, J., Piatt G. et al. | 2018 | Older African American Men’s Perspectives on Factors That Influence Type 2 diabetes Self-Management and Peer-Led Interventions | United States | To advance an understanding of the intersections between age, race/ethnicity and gender on self-management of type 2 diabetes in older African American men. | Focus group interviews | African American men above the age of 55 | 12 African American men |
| Hawkins, J., Watkins, D., Kieffer, E. et al. | 2015 | Psychosocial factors that influence health care use and self-management for African American and Latino men with type 2 diabetes: an explorative study | United States | Exploring the psychosocial factors that influence management of type 2 diabetes and use of health care among men of color with type 2 diabetes | Focus group interviews | African American and Latino men | Nine African American men + 13 Latino men |
| Helgeson, V., Naqvi, J. B., Seltman, H. et al. | 2020 | Links of communal coping to relationship and psychological health in type 2 diabetes: actor- partner interdependence models involving role, sex and race. | United States | Examining relations between relationship and communal coping and psychological functioning among couples in which one was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes | Mixed methods | 200 couples | 46% black, 45% women |
| Hjelm, K., & Bertero, C. | 2009 | Social support as described by Swedish people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus | Sweden | Exploring the influence of social support on foreign-born persons living with type 2 diabetes in Sweden in relation to gender, age and duration of disease | Mixed methods | Foreign-born adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes | 34 foreign-born men and women |
| Hurt, T., Francis, S. L., Seawell, A. H. et al. | 2020 | Revising Diabetes Programming for Black Men and Their Families | United States | Exploring the educational needs of men living with type 2 diabetes from a social marketing theory, assessing preference strategies and examining their relation to food | Focus group interviews | African American men | 4+9 men |
| Hurt, T., Seawell, A. H., & O’Connor, M. | 2015 | Developing effective diabetes programming for black men | US | Obtaining feedback from participants in a program to reduce the impact of type 2 diabetes among Black men | Focus group interviews | Black men with, at risk or affected by type 2 diabetes | 20 Black men |
| Jack, L., Toston, T., Jack, N. H., & Sims, M. | 2010 | A Gender-Centered Ecological Framework Targeting Black Men Living with Diabetes: Integrating a Masculinity Perspective In Diabetes Management and Education Research | United States | To offer a gender-centered ecological framework (a theoretical framework) that can help examine relations between sociodemographic factors, family, knowledge, psychological and biological health, health behavior and masculinity for type 2 diabetes outcomes | Conceptual development | Black men with or at risk of type 2 diabetes | Not stated |
| Jack, L. Jr. | 2005 | A candid conversation about men, sexual health and diabetes | United States | A call for more male-focused research on the sexual complications following type 2 diabetes, in particular how masculinity norms shape perceptions of male sexual roles | Review | NA | NA |
| Liburd, L. C., Namageyo-Funa, A., & Jack, L. Jr. | 2007 | Understanding “Masculinity” and the challenges of managing type 2 diabetes among African American men | US United States | Exploring illness narratives of African American men with type 2 diabetes with a specific focus on how masculinity intersects with self-management of type 2 diabetes | In-depth interviews | African American men living with type 2 diabetes | 16 men |
| Mansyur, C., Rustveld, L., Nash, S. G. et al. | 2016 | Hispanic Acculturation and Gender Differences in Support and Self-Efficacy for Managing Diabetes | United States | To determine whether support, social norms and associations with self-efficacy vary by gender and language-based acculturation in Hispanic women and men with type 2 diabetes | Survey | Hispanic women and men with type 2 diabetes | 248 women and men |
| Mathew, R., Guccicardi, E., De Melo, M. et al. | 2012 | Self-management experiences among men and women with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative analysis | Canada | Understanding the gendered differences in diabetes self-management, focusing on barriers, needs and challenges | Focus groups and individual interviews | Women and men diagnosed with type 2 diabetes | 35 patients with type 2 diabetes (51% female and 49% male) |
| Miranda, A., Garcia, D. O., Sánchez, C. et al. | 2020 | Health and type 2 diabetes perspectives of at-risk, Mexican-origin males (HD-MxOm): a qualitative study | United States | Exploring perspectives on type 2 diabetes, focusing on barriers to engaging in health behaviors and the impact of culturally rooted practices of masculinity for males of Mexican origin | Mixed methods | Men of Mexican origin at risk of type 2 diabetes | 15 men of Mexican origin |
| Morgan, E. H., Graham, M. L., Folta, S. C. et al. | 2016 | A qualitative study of factors related to cardiometabolic risk in rural men | United States | Examining the knowledge of modifiable cardiometabolic risk factors among rural men in the United States and identifying concerns and motivations to reduce risks of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases | Focus group interviews | Overweight/obese and medically underserved men in rural Montana | 54 men |
| Ponzo, M., Gucciardi, E., Weiland, M. et al. | 2006 | Gender, ethnocultural, and psychosocial barriers to diabetes self-management in Italian women and men with type 2 diabetes | Canada | Exploring the relations between gender, ethnocultural factors, family support, depression symptoms and illness perceptions for self-management of type 2 diabetes | Focus group interviews | Italian immigrants with type 2 diabetes | 50 Italian men and women |
| Sandberg, J., Trief P., Greenberg, R. et al. | 2006 | He Said, She Said: The Impact of Gender on Spousal Support in Diabetes Management | United States | Exploring gendered differences in experiences of support from spouse to further self-management of type 2 diabetes | Semi-structured interviews | Couples in which at least one is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes | 74 patients and their spouses |
| Seear, K. H., Lelievre, M. P., Atkinson, D. N. et al. | 2019 | “It’s Important to Make Changes.” Insights about Motivators and Enablers of Healthy Lifestyle Modification from Young Aboriginal Men in Western Australia | Australia | Exploring how young Aboriginal men make significant healthy lifestyle changes | In-depth interviews | Aboriginal men | Four Aboriginal men aged 20–35 years |
| Sherman, L., & Williams, J. S. | 2018 | Perspectives of Fear as a Barrier to Self-Management in Non-Hispanic Black Men With Type 2 Diabetes | United States | Examining the relationship between fear and self-management of type 2 diabetes in Non-Hispanic Black men | Semi-structured interviews | Non-Hispanic Black men | 19 men recruited from barbershops |
| Sherman, L., & Fawole, T. | 2016 | The more I do, the better I’ll be: The treatment preferences of type 2 diabetes among African American men | United States | To obtain knowledge of African- American men’s preferred strategies for managing type 2 diabetes | Individual interviews | African American men | 19 men |