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Diabetes Prevention and Control: Self-Management Education in the Home for People with Type 2 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.

Too few studies were available to assess the effectiveness of DSME in the home for people with Type 2 diabetes.

*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. Adobe PDF File [PDF - 67KB] Am J Prev Med 2002;22(4S):10-4.

Review completed: March 2001