Impact of an intensive multifactorial intervention in patients with type 2 diabetes at Primary Health Care

Autor: Mª Carmen Serrano Cepas, Mª Dolores Torres Montero, Margarita Reina Aróstegui, Mª Dolores Bermejo Abella, Luis Boatella Cumpián
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: NURE Investigación, Vol 10, Iss 67 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1697-218X
Popis: Diabetes is one of the diseases with a higher social and sanitary impact and therefore, it is one of the priorities in the service we provide. The success of the interventions with people suffering from diabetes lies in the efficacy of the pharmacological treatments as well as in the change of lifestyles and the different confrontations how these patients face their process. Health workers feel quite frustrated as a result of the slight success of our actions to achieve them to follow an adequate diet, make physical exercise or improve their self-sufficiency and self control when dealing with the different situations that should be faced because of diabetes. For such reason, the primary care professionals from Guadalhorce valley Sanitary District applied several different interventions from those generally used for many years. These intensive interventions will consist on eight group sessions of diabetological education, planning and accompaniment at the physical exercises and patients will also receive personalized diet advice; the intervention will be developed during three months, and afterward the level of glycosylated haemoglobin will be measured in order to see if it has improved. Therefore, we are going to evaluate in an objective way the effectiveness of this intensive intervention comparing it to the habitual intervention followed in Primary Health Care.
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