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Community and primary care nursing
Self-management interventions are crucially linked to an improvement in outcomes in people with type 2 diabetes
  1. Ilaria Baruffaldi
  1. Paula Carr Diabetes Centre, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Maidstone, UK
  1. Correspondence to Ilaria Baruffaldi; ilaria.baruffaldi{at}nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103911

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    Commentary on: Polsook R, Aungsuroch Y, Thontham A. The effect of self-management intervention among type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Worldviews Evid Based Nurs. 2023 Nov 2. doi: 10.1111/wvn.12688. Epub ahead of print. (1)

    Implications for practice

    • Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) self-care management practices are linked to positive outcomes, and, particularly, an improvement in the glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels.

    • Further research into self-management interventions is needed to confirm these findings can be validated from a cross-cultural perspective.

    Context

    The number of people diagnosed with diabetes is steadily rising, and, in 2021, it represented 10.5% of the worldwide population. The incidence is expected to increase to 12.2% by 2045.1 In Thailand, diabetes, which …

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    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.