PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to test the feasibility and efficacy of a diabetes self-management and education program for Chinese Americans in a support group format. The rationale for the study was to create culturally appropriate diabetes education and management programs in response to the growing diabetes prevalence among Chinese Americans. The investigators hypothesized that partic...

BACKGROUND We examined whether diabetes-related psychosocial factors differ between African American and white patients with type 2 diabetes. We also tested whether racial differences in glycemic control are independent of such factors. METHODS Baseline glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA(1c)) and survey measures from 79 African American and 203 white adult participants in a diabetes self-management...

Background Various studies examined the association between health literacy and self-management behaviour but few explored ways through which this occurs. The present study examines to what extent health literacy is associated with diabetes self-management behaviour and to what extent diabetes knowledge is a mechanism in this association. Method The study was based on cross-sectional data retri...

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends mobile phone applications used within health care systems for self-management of type 2 diabetes. “Diabetes Management: Mobile Phone Applications Used Within Healthcare Systems for Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management” is available at https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/ diabetes-management-mobile-phone-applications-usedwithin-he...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus is a major public health problem. Little is known about how people with type 2 diabetes experience self-management in a nurse-led, shared-care programme. The purpose of this article is to report an empirically grounded conceptualization of self-management in the context of autonomy of people with type 2 diabetes. METHODS This study has a qualitative descriptive, a...

BACKGROUND Weight loss has been shown to influence the health outcomes of type 2 diabetes patients. Providing weight management counselling to diabetes patients may help them adopt appropriate weight management behaviours to lose weight. This study determined the association between self-reported receipt of healthcare professional's weight management counselling and the weight management behavi...

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recently posted new information on its website: "Diabetes Management: Team-Based Care for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes." The information is available at https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/diabetes-management-team-based-care-patients-type-2-diabetes.

A lthough weight management is important to diabetes treatment (1–3), obesity remains common among adults with diabetes (4). This may reflect the difficulty of promoting weight loss (5) or inattention to obesity management during routine clinical practice (6). Since self-management is a major tenet of diabetes care (4), patient understanding of weight-related health risk may be an important ste...

INTRODUCTION The Disease Management Association of America identifies diabetes as one of the chronic conditions with the greatest potential for management. TRICARE Management Activity, which administers health care benefits for US military service personnel, retirees, and their dependents, created a disease management program for beneficiaries with diabetes. The objective of this study was to d...