The Manacor Hospital has created a therapeutic education consultation on diabetes to train and motivate patients and support them to actively participate in the treatment, learn to solve the limitations that the disease creates and to face everyday activities.
Leaded by an educating nurse that is integrated into the multidisciplinary team that attends to diabetes patients in the area of the Mallorcan bentHealth in a statement.
Through these education programs for children, youth, adults and pregnant women try to achieve the self -control of the disease by facilitating patients and their relatives the acquisition of knowledge, skills and abilities related to diabetes, and also modify attitudes and behaviors.
Each program is planned and progressive depending on the objectives that are intended to be achieved.The content covers all individual needs, since it adapts to the level of learning and the culture of each patient, so that some sessions require an individual approach, but others can be solved in groups.
The treatment of diabetes includes both the pharmacological guideline to manage the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood and diabetological education, as a fundamental pillar in care and attention to those affected.
This is the most efficient measure to achieve good control and reduce disease complications, which in the long term can have consequences with a high human, social and economic cost.
The fact that diabetes is a chronic disease that can be controlled by the patient itself demonstrates the importance that educational actions and programs are aimed at affected people and their family environment.
In fact, 90 % of the decisions that affect the result of the treatment should be taken by the same diabetes patients and their relatives.
With diabetes education programs, they can achieve adequate training, which will decide to decide the optimal control of the disease and the feeling of well -being.
In this way, people affected by diabetes receive information and acquire the necessary skills that will allow them to acquire a commitment in the therapeutic process, understanding the disease and the bases of treatment and how they can integrate it into everyday life.
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