Diabetes self-care activities are associated with social
support. Studies, focusing on chronic illnesses self-management
and especially on diabetes self-management, have
shown that as the level of social support gets higher the
results concerning self-management are improving [15, 26].
Patients who were supported from family members and/or
friends had higher levels of diabetes self-care behaviors [16,
47]. Furthermore, apart from family support, good communication
between healthcare provider and patients has been
shown to improve patient’s health outcome