The rate of type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is dramatically increasing worldwide. Continuing diabetes mellitus (DM) care needs effective self-management education and support for both patients and family members. This study aimed to review and describe the impacts of diabetes mellitus self-management education (DSME) that involve family members on patient outcomes related to patient health behav...

In this issue, the much-anticipated results of the second Diabetes Attitudes, Wishes and Needs (DAWN2) Study are published in three articles by the DAWN2 Study Group and made free for download on our website. The original DAWN1 study was groundbreaking at the time of its publication in 2001 because of its size, scope and international focus. The findings were also revolutionary because they des...

Diabetes self-management education plays a vital role in the treatment of people living with diabetes. This paper focuses on a new channel for the delivery of personalized diabetes education for Caribbean patients– the mobile phone. It discusses how mobile learning can be used to improve the self-care practices of patients with diabetes. It presents a mobile application called myDR (short for m...

BACKGROUND Early discharge care and self-management education, although effective in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), do not typically reduce hospital re-admission rates for exacerbations of the disease. We hypothesized that a respiratory outreach programme that comprises early discharge care followed by continued rapid-access out-patient support would reduce the ...

Providing patients with personalized educational messages can improve self-management of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risk factors. We present our compositional personalization approach that generates personalized educational material by dynamically selecting fine-grained information snippets, as per the patient profile, and then synthesizing them in a educational template to yield personalized...

Patient Self-management of Chronic Disease in Primary Care The nation’s 65-year-and-older population will swell from 35 million in 2000 to 53 million in 2020 as the babyboomer generation reaches the age of increasedchronicdiseaseprevalence.Many baby boomers bring to the health care system a high level of sophistication. In the view of one analyst, baby boomers “will accelerate the movement and ...

Background The ‘Sharing Health Care SA” chronic disease self-management (CDSM) project in rural South Australia was designed to assist patients with chronic and complex conditions (diabetes, cardiovascular disease and arthritis) to learn how to participate more effectively in the management of their condition and to improve their self-management skills. Implicit in the work is the idea that str...