Nursing Intervention of Nurse-led Health Education for Diabetes Patients: to promote self-care

Abstract

Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease that is a burden to many patients' families. Health education can improve patients' self-care compliance, and good self-care can improve the quality of life and health status of patients with diabetes. Nurses have the longest contact with patients, which leads to their dominance in health education. The aim of the literature review was to explore nursing health education interventions for diabetes self-care. The purpose of the study was to enhance nurses’ health education competences of diabetes self-care; to improve diabetes patients self-care awareness to reduce complication risk and extent their life expectancy. The study was completed in the form of a literature review, and literature was screened from the Cinahl and Medline databases to find literature that met the inclusion review criteria. A total of 14 articles were included in this literature review. The articles were analyzed using inductive content analysis. Articles included in the review were organized and sub-themes and themes identified. This literature review found that electronic equipment - data visualization, traditional education, contact management, which can promote the quality of self-care as an assistant. Applications and website, video, diabetes handbook and social media can be seem as data visualization; group meeting education and personal meeting education as a traditional education; contact management can be promoted by messages and call. Virtual education and traditional education have good effects on enhancing the life quality of diabetes patients. However, patient follow-up periods were short, and further research is needed to investigate the long-term outcomes of virtual care interventions.