Structured Diabetes Self-Management Education in Primary Care and Metabolic Control

Education is the mainstay of treatment of diabetes mellitus (DM), since it is through her that patients are trained to perform the management of your disease. There is a wide range of educational interventions tested in patients with DM, not having been defined so far a universal template that can be standardized and recognized as effective for all individuals with the disease. The present study aims to evaluate the effect of a group based structured education program, applied by a primary care generalist nurse, on metabolic control of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) patients attending a primary care unit.