Diabetes mellitus: lessons from patient education.
Patient Educ Couns
; 26(1-3): 57-66, 1995 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-7494756
The education of diabetic patients, proposed as an essential therapeutic tool since the early 1920s and accepted as such by official medicine only in the 1970s, has generated great enthusiasm over the last decade, with increasing concern for greater effectiveness by improved motivation of both patients and doctors. Structured education depends on the precise definition of agreed, short-term objectives, whose attainment shall be verified. Educational objectives may be set at different levels: knowledge of the disease, skills required for treatment, capacity to integrate therapy in everyday life,... The most relevant objectives however are the therapeutic goals of each individual patient, i.e. most often, prevention of acute complications, near-normoglycemia to prevent late complications and foot care to prevent disabling consequences of the latter. This can only be attained through a global approach to the patient, at once medical, educational and psychological. Medical science has definitively confirmed the importance of near- normoglycemia and proposes more effective insulin regimens and new recommendations for diet and exercise. Education demands a lot from health care providers: specific training, teaching skills, good communication, supportive attitude, readiness to listen and to negotiate. Patients' motivation to learn and adhere to treatment is also greatly influenced by individual factors, both psychological and environmental, that need to be taken into account.
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01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Educación del Paciente como Asunto
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Diabetes Mellitus
Tipo de estudio:
Guideline
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Patient Educ Couns
Año:
1995
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
Irlanda