Diabetes education

The key to better diabetes management is the self-management diabetes education (۱-۳). The patients themselves are responsible for the day to day control of diabetes (۲). A good initial education helps to better self-management of diabetes (۲). Diabetes education plays a great role in controlling blood glycemic level, and avoiding long-term diabetic complications (۱). Diabetes UK advocates that all people with diabetes, whether recently diagnosed or those with pre-existing diabetes should receive the structured education and support to enable them to manage their own diabetes (۱). Various diabetes education courses are now available in the United Kingdom, including DAFNE, DESMOND and X-PERT (۱). These diabetes courses are designed to make the diabetic patients to manage their illness effectively. According to Diabetes.co.uk, DESMOND is a National Heath Service (NHS) organization and was established in ۲۰۰۲-۲۰۰۳. DESMOND is the abbreviation for Diabetes Education and Self-Management for On-going and Newly Diagnosed. DESMOND provides ۶ hours planned group education over two half days, which are no more than ۲ weeks interval. The group consists of ۶-۱۰ newly diagnosed patients of type ۲ diabetes. DAFNE stands for Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating. DAFNE is an educational course for managing insulin user’s type ۱ diabetes (۱). It is a ۵-day training course with a follow up session ۸ weeks after the end of course. The aim of the course is to provide to the diabetics various required skills to estimate the carbohydrates in each meal and to inject the right dose of insulin (۱). Diabetes X-PERT programme has been devised for type ۲ diabetic patients (http://www.diabetes.co.uk, ۲۰۱۱). Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale PCT developed diabetes X-PERT programme. This programme was also developed for Urdu speaking south Asian community (۱). Several biomedical and psychological results were found diabetes X-PERT programme for type ۲ diabetic patients, including improvement of blood glucose control and life quality, reduction of blood total cholesterol and HbA۱c level, risks of hypoglycaemia conditions, body weight and mass index and increased knowledge of diabetic self-management. Nevertheless, most high-quality clinical trials are required to characterise diabetic self-management programme with minimum complications and maintenance of favourable results forever (۴,۵).

کلیدواژه ها:

Diabetic patient ، Diabetic management ، Diabetic programme