Importance of Self-care Behaviors in Diabetes Management

Abstract

Diabetes educators are healthcare professionals such as nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, exercise specialists, physicians, and social workers, who specialize in diabetes education and who make a significant contribution to the care and management of persons with diabetes. The specialty of diabetes education has advanced to be based increasingly on evidence and focussed on achieving desired outcomes.The emphasis on outcomes-based interventions comes from both the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education,1which emphasizes program outcomes, and the Standards for Outcomes Measurement of Diabetes Self-Management Education2of the American Association of Diabetes Educators, which focusses on individual patient outcomes as well as the reporting of aggregate patient data.