Management of Diabetes: Steps to Live with Diabetes

This handout explains the steps to manage diabetes and live a healthy life. It covers learning about diabetes, knowing the ABC of diabetes, living with diabetes, and getting routine care. The handout is easy to understand and can be used by primary healthcare professionals to educate patients. It emphasizes the importance of lifestyle management and regular check-ups for controlling diabetes.

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Name of the student:
Name of the university:
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Source: (Halcomb et al., 2017)
Management of diabetes:
STEP 1: LEARNING ABOUT DIABETES
 Learning in details about the different types of diabetes, the reason of their occurrence
 Collaborating with primary healthcare professionals and healthcare team members of
experts to make a plan of treatment (Halcomb et al., 2017)
 Accessing resources like online support group, take classes to learn about it, reading
online about it
 Reasons of taking care when diabetes occur
 To avoid negative outcome

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STEP 2: KNOWING ABC OF DIABETES
 A – knowing about A1C test, outcomes, results
 B – blood pressure goal and importance
 C – knowing about cholesterol and specially about good and bad cholesterol
Source: (Halcomb et al., 2017)
Source: (Cashn et al., 2015)

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STEP 3: LEARNING TO LIVE WITH DIABETES
 Coping with diabetes
 Eating well
 Being active
 Knowing what to do
STEP 4: GETTING ROUTINE CARE FROM PRIMARY
HEALTH SERVICE TO STAY HEALTHY
 Routine check-ups for checking blood pressure, foot check, weight check and self care
plan reviewing
 Conduct full body check-up once a year
Source: (Cashn et al., 2015)

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Summary:
Present day researchers have found that obesity is intricately associated with diabetes as
fat deposition results in reducing the ability of the cells to response to insulin. Cells in such
conditions become resistant to insulin and therefore glucose cannot be accepted by cell causing
increase in blood glucose level (Cashn et al., 2015). This conditions associates with different
negative outcomes like heart disorders, stroke, increase in blood pressure, failure of organs like
kidney, eyes, and nerve damage and many others. Therefore, professionals beside
pharmacological management should also educate patients about different lifestyle interventions
like weight management, diet, exercises, regular check-ups and many others. These would help
them to be aware of their health condition and will make them serious about controlling all these
factors for living healthy lives.
The handout is prepared with interesting pictures and very simple words which would
help in understanding the steps that diabetic people can take to manage their health. Such easy
language and the absence of medical jargons would be easier for them to relate to the
interventions. The older people will also be able to read them as the handout is not clumsy but
are clear and readable. A primary healthcare professional can use this to educate the patient and
follow the teach-back method to understand whether they have understood it or not (DeLaune et
al, 2016).
In many of the cases, it is seen that many individuals have the idea that they have
diabetes but they have no ideas about how to manage them. They only follow medications but
does not understand the importance of lifestyle management and time to time checkup for
controlling the diabetes. They tend to follow negative habits and alongside have medications.

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These, do not result in positive outcome on health and diabetes remains poorly managed (Green
& Gill, 2017). Therefore, such handouts act as effective resource for developing their health
literacy which they can keep with them and take help from them accordingly.

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