background & aim : perceived self-efficacy could lead to self-management behaviors among diabetic patients and the diabetes management self-efficacy scale (dmses) assesses the extent to which diabetic patients are confident that they can manage diabetes. however, the iranian version of dmses was not available. the objective of this study was the translation and psychometric evaluation of the ir...

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...

background: diabetes education by peer coaching is a strategy which helps the patients with diabetes in the field of behavioral and emotional problems. however, the results of studies in this field in other countries could not be generalized in our context. so, the current study aimed to examine the effectiveness of diabetes education by peer coaching on diabetes management. methods: outcome va...

compiling clinical guidelines is one of the requirements of family physician plan and classification of health care services.1 the high prevalence of type 2 diabetes can easily be seen in general practice so that 2.5% of referrals to general practitioners are due to diabetes. more than half of the patients with type 2 diabetes are left undiagnosed and most of them suffer from its complications ...

background: the study aim was to reports detailed characteristics of nutrition research in field of diabetes, and recognize knowledge gap in nutrition science in diabetes in iran. methods: online databases of pubmed, web of science and scopus as well as national databases including sid, iranmedex, and magiran were searched up to 2015 to identify eligible articles. finally, 378 articles were inc...

background managing diabetes requires changes in the patients’ life style and health habits which in turn need the comprehensive understanding of the disease and its impact. objectives to understand the explanatory model of diabetes in iran, a qualitative study was performed using the grounded theory method. patients and methods thirty persons were interviewed: fifteen patients, eleven nurses, ...

primary care physicians' visit services for diabetes management are now widely delivered in china's rural public health care. current studies mainly focus on supply but risk factors from patients' view have not been previously explored. this study aims to present the utilization of rural primary care physicians' visit services for diabetes management in the last 12 months in southwestern china,...

Objective: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common metabolic. One of the unknown complications of DM is cognitive disorders. Different types of cognitive impairment caused by DM may affect the quality of life, self-management of diabetes, and glycosylated hemoglobin. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of cognitive impairment and its relationship with glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), diabet...

Ramadan fasting has been a major concern among researchers considering the theoretically imposed risk on patients with diabetes mellitus due to prolonged fasting. Studies indicate that the knowledge and practices of physicians do not comply with the proposed recommendations in this regard in many cases. This study aimed to explore the viewpoints and attitudes of physicians toward the management...