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In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Kathryn Kreider explains how diabetes distress is assessed in a discussion with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed.
Kathryn Kreider is an Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, NC.
Transcript of this video segment:
Freed: And how do you determine whether, or at least how much, distress they’re under? Is there a written exam that you provide them to get the results?
Kreider: So, there are several options for inventories that assess diabetes distress. And there are also several options that are very short and would be very easy to use in clinical practice. One of them is called the Diabetes Distress Scale, the DDS. There is a longer option, but there’s also one that’s only two questions that’s a great screening tool for diabetes distress. There’s another option called Problem Areas in Diabetes, the PAID scale, which has both a one question and a five-question screening. So, as clinicians we worry about time in clinic and so that’s a really easy thing to potentially implement to screen patients for diabetes distress.
Freed: What are the two questions?
Kreider: I can’t remember the wording specifically. I could show you that later. But it asks about how well basically you’re managing with diabetes and how much distress you’re under because of your diabetes.