Health Education for Diabetes Mellitus

The aim was to develop a standardized patient education model reflecting the core educational elements recommended by Chinese diabetes society guideline, which could be delivered by nurses to hospitalized diabetes patients, and which could be easily scaled-up and implemented in China tier 3 hospital setting.

Management mode of standardized diabetes mellitus health education in intervention group.The control group carries on the routine diabetes mellitus health education management. In intervention group , All participants received Management mode of standardized diabetes mellitus health education.The standardized patient education included one-week personalized education on diabetes knowledge, diet and excise, glucose monitoring and hypoglycemia self-management and others during the hospitalization period. After discharge, patients were followed through the phone call at 2and 4 weeks. Follow-up of diabetic education outpatients at 12 and 24 weeks after discharge. The education nurse gave recommendations according to patent's problem during the follow-up. Full-time education nurses carry on education according to diabetes mellitus health education path table. In routine, After hospitalization, the responsible nurses interspersed with diabetes health education during the hospitalization. The health education is mainly about the problems observed by the responsible nurses and the problems raised by the patients. The patients were followed up by telephone 2 weeks after discharge.

Inclusion criteria

• Type 2 diabetes patients with World Health Organization(WHO) diagnosis (1999);
• HbA1c ≥ 7.5%;
• history of diabetes < 2 years;
• age from 18 to 70 years;
• having the ability of autonomous behavior, informed consent and voluntary participation in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• type 1 diabetes mellitus, gestational diabetes mellitus and other special types of diabetes;
• severe acute and chronic diseases, severe psychological failure, lung failure, tumor, etc.
• is participating in other researchers.