Information needs in people with diabetes mellitus: a systematic review

Table 3 Identified categories of IN by subgroups of people with DM

Categories	T1DM adults	T1DM children, adolescents	T2DM (including taking oral diabetes medication)	GDM	MODY	Unspecified type of diabetes
	(N = 7)	(N = 3)	(N = 14)^#	(N = 2)	(N = 1)	(N = 5)^$
Treatment process	[3, 21, 25] [32]*	[18, 19]	[3, 8, 9, 16, 17, 20, 23,24,25] [30, 31, 33, 34, 36]*	[27]*		[3] [26]*
Course of disease	[3, 21, 25] [6, 32]*	[18, 19]	[3, 8, 9, 20, 23,23,25] [28, 31, 33, 36]*		[22]	[26, 35]*
Abnormalities of glucose metabolism		[19]	[8, 20, 23,23,25] [33]*	[27]*	[22]	[3, 4]
Diabetes through the life cycle	[21, 22, 25] [29, 32]*	[18, 22]	[20]	[22]		[22]
Pathophysiology of diabetes		[19]	[9, 24]
Research	[21, 22] [32]*	[19]	[34]*			[35]*
Coping	[3, 21]	[18, 19];	[9, 23]
Support	[32]*		[34]*			[3]
Prevention			[8, 9, 20]

#Twelve studies including IN exclusively of people with T2DM [8, 9, 16, 17, 20, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36], 2 studies including in inter alia people with T2DM [3, 25]
$Three studies where the type of DM of the included population is not defined [22, 26, 35], 2 studies including IN that cannot be assigned certainly to a defined type of DM [3, 4]
*IN: secondary outcome

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