Diabetes Self Care Program (7 steps to success)

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  • Introductory module
  • Healthy eating module
  • Being active module
  • Monitoring module
  • Taking medications module
  • Problem solving module
  • Healthy coping module
  • Reducing risks module
  • Program Survey

Diabetes Self Care Program (7 steps to success)

1.1 Background

Historically the Diabetes Information Program (DIP) was designed as an information intensive short course that aimed to provide practical diabetes information to people with type 2 diabetes. The first version of the DIP was developed in 1995 by the Diabetes Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and it has undergone regular updates since that time. It has also been used in some rural and metropolitan diabetes services in South Australia.

In 2008, Diabetes Outreach contracted Royal District Nursing Service to conduct a review of the DIP. Dr Debbie Kralik headed up the review process which consisted of consultations with consumers of the DIP, metropolitan and rural health professionals involved in the delivery of the DIP and a literature review to provide the context in which to consider the findings from these consultations.

Key recommendations from the review were:

• Revise the DIP with a focus on promoting self management knowledge and skills
  
  
• Encourage diabetes education that is consumer driven with DIP attendees placing their issues on the agenda for discussion
  
  
• Promote hands on learning experiences
  
  
• Place diabetes self management information in a healthy lifestyle and self care framework rather than imparting disease specific clinical information
  
  
• Develop a suite of packages on diabetes self management
  
  
• Strengthen the evaluation of the DIP.
  
  

In 2009 Diabetes Outreach contracted Kaye Neylon (Dietitian CDE) to develop in partnership with Diabetes Outreach an education program. The resulting Diabetes Self Care Program (DSCP) has drawn on these recommendations and other evidence based diabetes and chronic disease self management guidelines. The DSCP is based on the ‘Diabetes self care – 7 steps to success’ booklet which was developed by the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) in 2008. We would like to acknowledge the previous work done by the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) and the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) in developing the 7 steps to success concept ¹.

Whilst the DSCP was initially designed as a group based program we encourage you to consider using the 7 steps framework ¹ and module content for individual education sessions wherever possible and appropriate.

 

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