The Impact of the Caregiving of Grandchildren on Diabetes Self-management Activities of African American Grandmothers
African American women experience great impact of diabetes. The impact of diabetes is problematic for the 25 % of African American who are over 55 years of age (Carthron, Johnson, Hubbart, Strickland, and Kimya Nance, 2009). The purpose of this research is to compare the diabetes self-management activities of African American primary Caregiving grandmothers before, and after the initiation of Caregiving. Furthermore, this research used a cross-sectional design; a nonexperimental design used to gather data from the group of participants in a period of time and compare the results. Precisely,