The effect of patient education on glycemic status and self-monitoring activity in type 2 diabetic patients recently switched to basal insulin analogue treatment

Abstract

The possible reason for baseline differences between the two groups was that younger and more motivated patients with better glycemic control tended to join the education program. Education was associated with beneficial body mass changes but not with improvement in glycemic status. Improved self-monitoring and physical activity can be documented in the group of educated patients.

The effect of educational program based on theory of planned behavior on promoting retinopathy preventive behaviors in patients with type 2 diabetes: RCT

“…Given that HbA1c represents the mean fluctuations in blood sugar over the past 3 months, reducing it can greatly prevent the complications of diabetes, including retinopathy in patients with diabetes in Poland [18] and Ontario, Canada [21] that all of whom needed education. Face-to-face education reduced patients' HbA1C by 48% in the Hidvégi study in Budapest [31] and by 1.5% in the Bandurska study in Poland [18]. Some limitations of this study are using a small sample and self-reported questionnaires which may be prone to recall as well as desirability bias.…”