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Therapeutic patient education is the patient’s/family’s
capacity building process on the basis of integrated actions
to care project. It is also the set of practices to allow the
patient skills, to support actively the illness, care and
monitoring, in partnership with the healthcare team. This is
a co-construction between the treated and the caregiver, a
comprehensive care most optimal in a cognitive behavioral
perspective and psycho-emotional through which the
evaluation of quality patient’s life is paramount.
Introduction
: The study DAWN2 France showed that people
with diabetes have an impaired quality of life. An alteration
efficiency of the management of this pathology. This study
also showed that French patients seem more anxious than
in most other countries, the fear of hypoglycemia is a very
important point, as the fear of injections and that the
transition to insulin is seen as a penalty. By giving patients
educational sessions, group and individual, medically, dietary,
physical, psychological and social, the ETP has significantly
improved the management of patients.
Methods
: An observational study is to evaluate the evolution
of the quality of life and the metabolic balance of a cohort
of 100 patients who completed a personal ETP program,
developed about 18 educational National Conferences, full
hospitalization. A day hospital monitoring is proposed at 3,
6 and 9 months. The desired main criterion is the quality of
life. The questionnaire used to assess the quality of life is
the SF-36. The biological and anthropometric parameters
also measured. The main characteristics of the patients
included in this study were: Age between 18 and 70 years;
Type 2 diabetes diagnosed for at least 6 months; HbA1c> 7%;
BMI> 30; Patient treated by at least two oral anti diabetics;
No severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy; associated
metabolic syndrome; Lack of thyroid dysfunction; No
modification therapy (treatment) for at least 2 months.
e:
draldimachki@hotmail.comTherapeutic patient education: A therapeutic purpose or alternative to conventional therapy for
improving the quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes?
Aldimachki G
and
Guney I
Vittel Hospital, France