Increasing Self-Efficacy for the Management of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Through an Advanced Practice Education Program for Primary Care Professionals

Bushra Yunis, Paloma Echevarría-Pérez, Juan Jose Hernandez Morante, Isabel Morales-Moreno, Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob · 2024

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Bushra Yunis and co-authors test whether extra training for primary care staff improves care for patients with type 2 diabetes. Their 2024 study ran in health centers in northern Israel. It starts from the finding that many front-line staff know less about diabetes care than the disease's spread demands.

Staff with the weakest test scores joined an eight-week advanced course, while their patients were tracked for a year. Knowledge and confidence rose sharply for the trained staff. Their patients then showed better blood sugar and kidney scores than patients of untrained staff. The authors say training front-line teams can pay off in patient health, not just in staff test results. The gains appeared within six months of the course.

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CREATORBushra Yunis, Paloma Echevarría-Pérez, Juan Jose Hernandez Morante, Isabel Morales-Moreno, Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE49 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11676394

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