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Group Education for Diabetes Patients can Change Behaviour and Improve Health

February 16, 2008 at 2:55 PM Diabetes News

A structured group education programme for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes can successfully change patients’ attitudes and behaviour towards their condition and improve their health, according to a study published on bmj.com today.

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Type 2 diabetes affects around 4-5% of European populations and consumes a disproportionate amount of health service resource. In the long-term, it can lead to serious complications such as blindness, kidney failure, and amputation. It is also associated with increased illness and premature death from heart disease.

Although the Diabetes National Service Framework in the UK promotes group structured education, until now, there has been no scientific evaluation and no programmes meeting all the quality criteria identified by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

So researchers set out to test whether the DESMOND (Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed) structured education programme could fill this evidence gap.

Their study involved 824 patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes at 207 general practices in England and Scotland. The average age of participants was 59.5 years. Participants were divided into two groups. The intervention group received a six-hour structured group education programme delivered in the community by two trained health care professional educators. The control group received usual care. All patients were monitored over 12 months.

The intervention group showed a modest but significant weight loss (1.1kg) at 12 months. The proportion giving up smoking was also significantly higher in the intervention group.

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