Catharina GÃ¥fvels

Biography

Catharina Gåfvels is a researcher at Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology in University of Karolinska, Sweden.

Research Interest

Catharina Gåfvels is research includes clinical practice who were newly diagnosed with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and experienced psychosocial problems at disease onset. We examined types of psychosocial problems, causes of these problems, psychosocial interventions, extent of achievement of psychosocial treatment goals, and whether the patients felt they benefited from the treatment. Eighty-nine working-age (18–65-year-old) Swedish adults newly diagnosed with diabetes were included. Each was interviewed and responded to questionnaires at the beginning and end of the study period.