Diabetes Self-Management Education to Empower Adolescents with Type I Diabetes

Abstract: The study was aimed to assess the effectiveness of diabetes self-management education (DSME) to empower adolescents with type I diabetic. A quasi experimental design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted in Diabetic Pediatric Out-Patient Clinic at Children Hospital affiliated to Ain Shams University. Subjects: A purposive sample of 52 adolescents out of 316 aged from twelve to eighteen years, who have type I diabetes as a chronic illness one month ago their blood glucose level uncontrolled. Data were collected by structured questionnaire sheet to assess knoweldge, adolescent medical record, adolescent follow-up log book and observation checklist to assess practice regarding to seven items of DSME. These tools were used three times pre/post after three months and after six months follow-up. The study revealed that, there was a statistically significant difference between pre/post, pre/follow-up and post/follow-up implementation of DSME sessions. The study concluded that DSME had empowered adolescents toward achieve self-care. It could be recommended that DSME could be applied to all age of children especially adolescents to guide the intervention and improve the care