Clair Naughton, Regional Development Officer, Diabetes Ireland
Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a condition that can be complex to manage, with most of the management decided on daily by the person living with diabetes. Effective self-management of diabetes requires knowledge, skills and confidence as many decisions and healthy lifestyle choices need to be made by each individual day to day. Equipping a person with self-management skills and promoting empowerment in selfcare is challenging for healthcare professionals in a clinical setting, given the limited time for consultation and everything that needs to be discussed in a routine diabetes review. Self-management support interventions such as structured patient education (SPE) programmes are widely accepted to be an integral part of the management of T2DM.
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