A psychological approach to providing self-management education for people with type 2 diabetes: the Diabetes Manual

Abstract

Background: The objectives of this study were twofold (i) to develop the Diabetes Manual, a selfmanagement educational intervention aimed at improving biomedical and psychosocial outcomes (ii) to produce early phase evidence relating to validity and clinical feasibility to inform future research and systematic reviews.

Validity and reliability of the DMSES UK: a measure of self-efficacy for type 2 diabetes self-management

“…Evaluation of the criterion and construct validity and the reliability of the DMSES UK was undertaken using data from the cluster randomised trial of the Diabetes Manual, a structured education programme for type 2 diabetes undertaken from 2005 to 2007 (Sturt et al, 2006a;2006b;. RCT participants were 245 people with type 2 diabetes resident across the West Midlands, UK.…”

“…It demonstrates its value as the cornerstone of effective chronic disease self-management through its increasing use as a self-management research outcome measure (Lorig et al, 1999;Farmer et al, 2005;Sturt et al, 2006a;2006b;Davies et al, 2008).…”

Patient Engagement and Coaching for Health: The PEACH study – a cluster randomised controlled trial using the telephone to coach people with type 2 diabetes to engage with their GPs to improve diabetes care: a study protocol

“…Many of the psychological interventions that Ismail et al reviewed employed Rollnick & Miller's [16] motivational interviewing techniques based on the Transformational Model of Change or counseling strategies focused on Bandura's [17] theory of self-efficacy. Nevertheless, how such interventions have an effect remains unclear [18] although some experts suggest goal setting based on clinical information may be critical [19,20]…”

Self-regulation and weight reduction in patients with type 2 diabetes: A pilot intervention study

“…Patients who received standard care and the diabetes self-help manual also received a Dutch translation of the British 'Diabetes Manual' [22,23], a self-help book for patients with type 2 diabetes. The book contains a 12-week programme to enhance patients' selfefficacy through provision of information and record keeping.…”

“…The workbook consisted of an information section, containing general diabetes and overweight-relevant information partly derived from the 'Diabetes Manual' [22,23], and an assignment section that contained weekly self-regulation tasks tailored to the patients' goals. Prior to the intervention, the self-regulation workbook was pretested in four overweight patients with type 2 diabetes, leading to its present version.…”