Developing Comprehensive Diabetes Education Materials for Structured Patient Education Programs in Primary Care Setting

Developing Patient Education Questionnaire in Iranian Culture

Introduction: The objective of the study was to develop an instrument to measure patient education content. Materials and Methods: First of all, literature searches were undertaken to determine current national and international patient education questionnaires. Then a forty five item questionnaire was developed. Questionnaires were filled by 399 patients in surgery wards of Kerman medical ho...

The importance of diabetes foot care education in a primary care setting

Journal of Diabetes Nursing Vol 16 No 1

Assessing the Readability of Patient Education Materials about Diabetes Available in Shiraz Health Centers

Introduction: Patient education materials are one of the important factors to improve the health literacy of patients with chronic diseases like diabetes and are employed in order to develop self-care skills. These materials will meet such objectives if they are understandable by their audiences. Hence, the aim of present study was to evaluate the readability of educational resources published ...

Commentary on the National Standards for Diabetes Patient Education Programs.

Structured group-based education for type 2 diabetes in primary care.

To determine the effectiveness of structured group-based diabetes education programmes in improving glycaemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes in primary care a criteria-based review was conducted. The review of the three controlled trials identified showed that although HbA(1c) decreased in two of the studies, these differences were not statistically significant. Based on the present rev...