- Author : Jennifer Marie Walker
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- Release : 2021
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Improving Diabetic Knowledge and Practices Through the Use of a Low Health literacy Diabetes Toolkit
Download or read book Improving Diabetic Knowledge and Practices Through the Use of a Low Health literacy Diabetes Toolkit written by Jennifer Marie Walker and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Diabetes is a profound, deleterious condition affecting millions of people worldwide. To successful management diabetes and avoid complications, one must have proficient health literacy ability to understand and follow recommend management techniques efficiently and effectively (Liang & Brach, 2017). Evidence-based diabetes self-management programs that use low health literacy tools have proven to lower the glycated hemoglobin (A1C) levels and improve diabetic knowledge and practices of participants. In this capstone project, a multimodal, low health literacy, diabetes self-management toolkit was implemented in an inner-city clinic among persons with diabetes and various health literacy levels. From the clinic, twelve patients with diabetes were recruited, consented, and enrolled into a tiered diabetes education intervention. Participants were mostly female (n=7), mean age 52 years old, all high school graduates and most having high health literacy. Participant's health literacy level was measured using the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (DM-REALM) survey and knowledge was assessed via the Brief Diabetes Knowledge survey pre-intervention and post-intervention. Compliance was measured by self-report and pre-intervention and post-intervention A1C levels. Participants improved medication adherence and endorsed eating less carbohydrates pre to post intervention. The group mean A1C declined pre-intervention to post-intervention while knowledge scores increased across all literacy levels. This three-month evidence-based, diabetes education intervention showed that patients with diabetes could successfully manage their diabetes when provided with low health-literacy tools. More research is needed to explore the impact of diabetes toolkits on diabetes knowledge and A1C's longitudinally in this population. Key words: Diabetes type 1, Diabetes type 2, Diabetes Self-Management, Health Literacy " -- Abstract