Diabetes Prevention and Control: Self-Management Education in the Home for Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes

Task Force Finding*

The home can be a good setting for DSME interventions because the educator can address issues that can be more difficult to deal with in the clinical setting, such as cultural, family, and environmental factors affecting lifestyle, self-monitoring of blood glucose, and barriers to optimal self-care.

On the basis of Community Guide rules of evidence, there is sufficient evidence that DSME in the home is effective for improving glycemic control among adolescents with Type 1 diabetes, whether using home visits or computer-assisted instruction.

*From the following publication:

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Recommendations for healthcare system and self-management education interventions to reduce morbidity and mortality from diabetes. [PDF - 67KB] Am J Prev Med 2002;22(4S):10-4.

Review completed: March 2001