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The Patient Teaching Sheet for Type 2 Diabetes is designed to enhance patient education and self-management skills, which are crucial for effective diabetes care. It includes sections on understanding diabetes, healthy eating, physical activity, blood sugar monitoring, and medication adherence, all presented in an accessible format. The sheet aims to empower patients, improve health outcomes, and reduce healthcare costs by fostering informed decision-making and active participation in their treatment plans.

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Development_of_a_Patient_Teaching_Sheet_for_Type_2_Diabetes_Management

The Patient Teaching Sheet for Type 2 Diabetes is designed to enhance patient education and self-management skills, which are crucial for effective diabetes care. It includes sections on understanding diabetes, healthy eating, physical activity, blood sugar monitoring, and medication adherence, all presented in an accessible format. The sheet aims to empower patients, improve health outcomes, and reduce healthcare costs by fostering informed decision-making and active participation in their treatment plans.

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Patient Teaching Sheet for Type 2 Diabetes

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Patient Teaching Sheet for Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes management education offers the basis to assist people with diabetes,

including guiding treatment decisions and activities, and has been demonstrated to enhance

health outcomes. Diabetes self-management education (DSME) is related to enhanced diabetes

care behaviors and knowledge, lower HbA1c levels, enhanced quality of life, decrease self-

reported weight, decreased costs of healthcare, and health coping (Chester et al., 2018). The

demand for patient education is extensively recognized. Patient education on self-management

skills are essential for ideal control of type 2 diabetes.

Patient education is an important element of quality type 2 diabetes care. Traditionally,

patient education is carried out in person via one-on-one teaching. To empower the patient and

support long-term adherence to their care plan, this project includes a user-friendly patient

teaching sheet as a necessary tool for type 2 diabetes self-management and education. The tool

contributes significantly to improving the health outcome of the patient, satisfaction,

communication, empowerment, and cost-effectiveness.

Purpose of the Teaching Sheet

A patient teaching sheet is an educational material with information about health topics,

treatments, and medications. A teaching sheet also incorporates answers to common patient

questions and concerns concerning those topics, treatments, and medications. The main purpose

of the patient teaching sheet is to provide the patient with knowledge and information concerning

the state of their health, treatment alternatives, and self-management approaches. The teaching

sheet is designed to educate the patient and assist them to be more active in rendering decisions
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concerning their treatment and medication (Giuliani et al., 2020). They are symbolic of the

greater role of patients in their own healthcare.

Content of the Teaching Sheet

The content in the teaching sheet will be easy to understand and use, as well as informative

and enlightening. Therefore, it will be divided into five key sections. The first section will cover

understanding type 2 diabetes, where it will include a brief overview of type 2 diabetes, its

causes, risk factors, and prevention. The second section will cover the basics of healthy eating

and help the patient make healthier choices. It will also cover direction on developing balanced

diet including foods to limit and prioritize and portion sizes. The third section will cover the

benefits of staying active to manage type 2 diabetes. Recommendations for including physical

activity in patient's day-to-day operations, with examples of low-impact exercises appropriate for

beginners. The fourth section will include the importance of monitoring blood sugar and the

factors that cause the patient's blood sugar to change across the day. It will also include

instructions for taking medications as prescribed. Lastly. This section will cover a set of

symptoms that might suggest hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, or other complications as well as

when to see a doctor.

Design and Usability

The patient should be able to both read and understand the teaching sheet. Most of the

average type 2 diabetes clinic's patient teaching sheets are written to a degree that is not readable

by a majority of patients. The teaching sheet is fabricated with the patient in mind, emphasizing

engagement and readability. Key elements include visual elements, which will help the patient to

retain information better. Infographics, images, and charts will be used to strengthen major
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concepts. For instance, a plate diagram displays portion control. Accessible language is another

key feature. The patient teaching sheet is a vital tool for communicating information to the

patient; therefore, simple, jargon-free text will ensure the patient understands the information.

Another feature is the action-oriented tips, which will require the patient to take practical action

to manage type 2 diabetes. Every section will incorporate actionable guidance like "Aim for 40

minutes of walking, four days a week."

Patient Use and Benefit

The teaching sheet is deliberated to be a reference resource that the patient can store at

home and consult as required. Dealing with type 3 diabetes is not easy. The more concisely the

patient understands the condition, the more likely they will adhere to the intervention. The tool

will significantly enhance adherence to medication, increase quality of life, lower healthcare

costs, and reduce hospitalizations. The patient can use the tool to monitor daily levels of blood

sugar, plan meals, monitor their physical activity goals, and identify symptoms that would

require them to see the doctor.

Empowering Patients for Long-Term Success

The goal of the teaching sheet is to lead patients' well-being and health, focus on patient

self-efficacy, render informed decisions about care and treatment, and be committed to adhering

to treatments. Patient education is a vital tool that aims at empowering patients to become more

independent about the management of their health (Giuliani et al., 2020). Therefore, by

equipping the patient with a teaching sheet that is tailored to their needs, this tool promotes self-

efficacy and encourages active participation in the management of their condition. The teaching
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sheet also corresponds with the extensive goal of the intervention of enhancing patient safety,

improving care quality, and decreasing healthcare costs.

Reference

Chester, B., Stanely, W. G., & Geetha, T. (2018). Quick guide to type 2 diabetes self-

management education: Creating an interdisciplinary diabetes management

team. Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy, 11, 641-

645. https://doi.org/10.2147/dmso.s178556

Giuliani, M., Papadakos, T., & Papadakos, J. (2020). Propelling a new era of patient education

into practice—Cancer care post–covid-19. International Journal of Radiation

Oncology*Biology*Physics, 108(2), 404-

406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.05.036

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