Patient Education: Overview in Diabetes
DEFINITION
- Ongoing collaborative process through which people with diabetes obtain the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to make daily decisions about their medications, physical activity, meal plan and other psychosocial challenges that impact their blood glucose levels, other risk factors, and quality of life.
- Includes evidence-based clinical knowledge, behavior strategies, and educational theory[12]
- Recommended for all people with diabetes at the time of diagnosis and as needed in subsequent years[7]
- Medicare covers 10 hours the first year and 2 hours every year thereafter; also covered by most private insurances
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Last updated: September 4, 2017
Citation
Brennan, Nancyellen, and Rita Rastogi Kalyani. "Patient Education: Overview in Diabetes." Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide, 2017. Johns Hopkins Guides, www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Diabetes_Guide/547116/all/Patient_Education:_Overview_in_Diabetes.
Brennan N, Rastogi Kalyani R. Patient Education: Overview in Diabetes. Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide. 2017. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Diabetes_Guide/547116/all/Patient_Education:_Overview_in_Diabetes. Accessed September 22, 2023.
Brennan, N., & Rastogi Kalyani, R. (2017). Patient Education: Overview in Diabetes. In Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Diabetes_Guide/547116/all/Patient_Education:_Overview_in_Diabetes
Brennan N, Rastogi Kalyani R. Patient Education: Overview in Diabetes [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide. ; 2017. [cited 2023 September 22]. Available from: https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Diabetes_Guide/547116/all/Patient_Education:_Overview_in_Diabetes.
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