DESMOND (diabetes)

DESMOND (diabetes)

DESMOND (Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed) is a UK NHS training course for people with type 2 diabetes that helps people to identify their own health risks and to set their own goals.

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Background

DESMOND is the first national education programme created for people with Type 2 diabetes. DESMOND meets the criteria NICE identified as being the characteristics of a quality, evidence-based structured education programme.

A NHS training course is available for type 1 diabetics called DAFNE (Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating).

Course details

Format

Each programme is run in a group setting, consisting of not more than 10 people newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes (normally within the last 12 months), accompanied, if they so choose, by a partner, family member, or friend. The programme may be run as a one day, or two part (2 x half-day) course.

The DESMOND programme is facilitated by two health care professionals who have been formally trained.

Content

Topics covered in the DESMOND curriculum:

  1. The patient story
  2. What diabetes is
  3. Main ways to manage diabetes
  4. Consequences of diabetes and personal risk from having diabetes
  5. Monitoring your diabetes
  6. Ways to take action to improve the control of your diabetes
  7. Food choices for diabetics
  8. Physical activity and diabetes
  9. Stress and emotions and diabetes
  10. The purpose and content of annual diabetic review and screening in diabetics

References

  • Department of Health Structured patient education in diabetes: Leaflet
  • NHS Get Educated page for diabetes
  • NHS NICE criteria for diabetes training courses

See also

External links

v · d · eDiabetes (E10–E14, 250)
Types of diabetes
Prediabetes (Impaired fasting glucose, Impaired glucose tolerance)
Type 1 · Type 1.5 · Type 2 · MODY · NDM (Transient, Permanent)
Blood tests
Blood sugar · Glycosylated hemoglobin · Glucose tolerance test · Fructosamine
Diabetes management
Complications/prognosis
Lines of research

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