Self-management education in the news

Younger people with type 2 diabetes are less diligent than older patients when it comes to taking medications and following lifestyle advice, show data from the Australian National Diabetes Audit.

Results of a cluster randomized trial suggest that supplementing diabetes education programs with peer support could lessen disease-associated distress for patients with type 2 diabetes.

An occupational therapy-driven intervention can significantly improve blood glucose control and diabetes-related quality of life among ethnically diverse young adults with low socioeconomic status, US researchers report.

A pilot randomized study shows that an adapted structured self-management program can be successfully delivered to diabetes patients with mild or moderate intellectual disabilities.

Psychological interventions might have a small positive effect on improving self-care and glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes, but not for relieving diabetes-related distress, suggest findings from The Cochrane Library.

A web-based self-management program significantly improves glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes compared with simple website information, UK trial findings suggest.

An online game delivering diabetes self-management education helps improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes, study results suggest.

More than a third of women with gestational diabetes are failing to self-monitor their postprandial blood glucose levels, with possible implications for pregnancy outcomes, according to a French pilot study.

Research shows that switching to an insulin pump does not improve glycemic control in patients referred to an educational program after struggling to control their type 1 diabetes with multiple daily injections.

A large survey highlights that patients with type 1 diabetes are poorly compliant with self-monitoring their ketone levels when needed, leading the researchers to urge better education on the subject.