Literacy-appropriate educational materials and brief counseling improve diabetes self-management

Health Literacy, Diabetes Prevention, and Self-Management

In the last few decades, focus on how to achieve and support maintenance of optimal glycemic control has become a wellestablished research area. It is well known and accepted that the degree of blood glucose control, especially in diabetes mellitus type 2, is linkedwith the risk of developing complications such as heart disease, stroke, renal failure, and blindness [1, 2]. Patients’ knowledge a...

Diabetes Literacy. Enhancing the effectiveness of diabetes self-management education

Is self-efficacy associated with diabetes self-management across race/ethnicity and health literacy?

OBJECTIVE Although prior research demonstrated that improving diabetes self-efficacy can improve self-management behavior, little is known about the applicability of this research across race/ethnicity and health literacy levels. We examined the relationship between diabetes self-efficacy and self-management behavior in an urban, diverse, low-income population with a high prevalence of limited ...

provision of nutritional/lifestyle counseling on diabetes self-management: a chance to improve metabolic control in new cases of type 2 diabetes

b a ckground: type  2  diabetes  (t2d)  is  an  increasing  public  health  problem primarily because of increase in the prevalence of a sedentary lifestyle and obesity. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of self-management education on metabolic control in adults with t2d. m ethods : in a quasi-experimental study, 300 patients with t2d recruited from the diabetes society of nat...

Barriers to Effective Diabetes Self-Management Education

Introduction: Self-management education is the key component of diabetes care. Furthermore, high levels of patient non-compliance or non-adherence to the treatment regimen suggest that patient education for self-management is faced with some shortcomings. This study aimed to identify barriers to effective diabetes self-management education. Methods: This is a traditional review of published st...