Therapeutic education: A solution to reduce therapeutic inertia and noncompliance

Therapeutic education (TPE) aims to enable the patient suffering from a chronic diseases to manage his/her illness and treatment, and prevent avoidable complications, while keeping or improving his/her quality of life. it comprises a set de practical tools aiming the patient to acquire skills to manage himself/herself the disease, its care and supervision, in partnership with healthcare providers. TPE may contribute to improve therapeutic compliance and to reduce clinical inertia, two drawbacks frequently encountered in the management of patients with chronic diseases. As an illustration, we briefly present edudora2 («Education thérapeutique et préventive face au diabète et à l'obésité à risque chez l'adulte et l'adolescent» = "Preventive and therapeutic education for diabetes and at risk obesity in adults and adolescents"), an ongoing original project in three frontier regions (Wallonia - Grand-duchy of Luxembourg - Lorraine)