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Volume 5, Issue 8(Suppl) J Nurs Care 2016
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal
Page 93
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Euro Nursing 2016
October 17-19, 2016
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15th Euro Nursing & Medicare Summit
October 17-19, 2016 Rome, Italy
Therapeutic education: The design of an educational program protocol for primary care diabetic
patients
M Rosário Pinto1, Pedro Parreira2, Marta Lima Basto 3 and Lisete Mónico4
1I P Santarém, Higher School of Health, Portugal
2ESEnfC, Coimbra, Portugal
3Lisbon University, Portugal
4University of Coimbra, Portugal
Statement of the Problem: Diabetes is considered the 21 st century disease due to the increase of patients’ number and to a
high prevalence of poor metabolic control. In Portugal, country where this study was conducted, 21, 8% of all the people with
diabetes followed in National Health Services, have values of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) over 8%, which demonstrates
that poor metabolic control is a major problem that seems to remain in a significant percentage of Portuguese patients.
Therapeutic education has proven to be structural to diabetic people self-control and evidence highlights the importance
of developing and implementing educational interventions that can reduce this burden, but researchers have reported the
shortage of tested educational programs that allow its effective discussion.
Aim: The purpose of this study is to design a specific protocol of a lifestyle educational program for type 2 diabetic patients.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: An exploratory and descriptive study was done using constant comparison
methodology 2 principles, triangulating semi-directive interviews, participant observation and record analysis. Theoretical
framework was supported upon Orem’s self-care theory.
Findings: An educational program with several active components was designed with a 24 weeks’ timeline. The protocol
included 3 face-to-face moments with a specific nursing intervention, 2 educational group sessions (focused on self-motivation,
lifestyle generic behaviors and feet self-care) and a telephone monitoring intervention.
Conclusion & Significance: The program developed is a complex intervention 3, with several active components, integrating
the intervention usually carried out by the nurses that work in a Community Health Care Centre, in connection to which is
added group and telephone intervention. Its significance accrues from the possibility of replication as it follows specific stated
sequential phases, making its effectiveness assessment a possibility.
Biography
M Rosário Pinto has done specialization in Medical Surgical Nursing. Her research has been on Gender Sociology (in MD context), Therapeutic Education (diabetic
patients) and Complex Interventions Effectiveness Assessment. As an Academic, HIV, Cancer and Emergency and Critical Care in Nursing are her major interests.
She is the Coordinator for Internationalization of her Health School.
M Rosário Pinto et al., J Nurs Care 2016, 5:8(Suppl)