What motivates people with type 2 diabetes to maintain lifestyle changes and what challenges do they experience? A qualitative evidence synthesis

• Tina Bekken ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tina Bekken, Nina Ottesen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5053-2876

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• Nina Ottesen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tina Bekken, Nina Ottesen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tinabekken@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1008-729X

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• Claire Glenton ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CG and LVN also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

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• Lena Victoria Nordheim

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CG and LVN also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway

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