Diabetes Therapy
Clinicians need support to implement empowerment education in diabetes
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 6th, 2004
"The overall aim was to gain insight into and understand how physicians and nurses view the implementation of empowerment group education (EGE) in diabetes. Prior to the study the physicians and nurses attended a 2-day empowerment workshop. Further, they had implemented the empowerment approach in two groups of patients with type 2 diabetes," scientists writing in the journal Patient Education and Counseling report.
"Three to nine months later they (5 physicians and 11 nurses from six family practices) participated in focus group interviews to evaluate...
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