Diabetes PubMed

These findings support the effectiveness of self-management education programmes to increase self-care behaviours.

In this sample of mostly lower-income, minority youths with type 1 diabetes, there was a significant lack of knowledge concerning the meaning and implications of the HbA1c test.

When designed within a framework informed by behavioral science and supported by commercial game-design principles, serious video games for health have the potential to be an effective method for promoting self-management behaviors among youth with diabetes.

A brief video intervention increased diabetes knowledge amongst those newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and may comprise an effective way of directing education to such individuals.

Telehealth effectively created access to successfully conduct a one year remote diabetes self-management education (DSME) by a nurse certified diabetes educator (CDE) and dietitian that improved metabolic control and reduced cardiovascular risk in an ethnically diverse and rural population.

Structured diabetes education (SDE) is effective at improving metabolic control in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

Although many diabetes education programmes have been initiated in China, barriers have been identified for implementation of the programmes. These include: lack of public awareness of diabetes; lack of standards of practice for diabetes educators; and lack of evaluation programmes to assess their performance.

There was a significant positive relationship between socioeconomic status and health literacy and between diabetes knowledge and health literacy. The results support promotion of the patient-provider relationship, depression screening among individuals with diabetes, and exploration of new strategies for diabetes education.