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Diabetes educators: skilled professionals for improving prediabetes outcomes.

Dawn Sherr¹, Ruth D Lipman

¹American Association of Diabetes Educators, Chicago, Illinois 60606, USA.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

|March 19, 2013

Summary

Prediabetes can lead to type 2 diabetes. Diabetes educators can help individuals with prediabetes manage weight through diet and physical activity, reducing their risk of developing diabetes.

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Area of Science:

Endocrinology
Public Health
Behavioral Medicine

Background:

Increasing prediabetes prevalence poses a significant risk for type 2 diabetes development.
Weight management in individuals with obesity and prediabetes is crucial for diabetes prevention.
Lifestyle modifications, including diet and physical activity, are challenging for many to sustain.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the application of diabetes educator skill sets to the prediabetes population.
To identify strategies for reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes in individuals with prediabetes.

Main Methods:

Leveraging the expertise of diabetes educators in goal-setting and self-care behavior modification.
Adapting established diabetes self-management education principles for prediabetes intervention.

Main Results:

Diabetes educators possess skills directly applicable to supporting individuals with prediabetes.
Targeted interventions can empower individuals with prediabetes to make necessary lifestyle changes.
This approach offers a proactive strategy to mitigate diabetes risk.

Conclusions:

Diabetes educators can play a vital role in preventing type 2 diabetes by addressing prediabetes.
Applying diabetes self-management education principles to prediabetes is a feasible and effective strategy.
Early intervention with diabetes educators can significantly reduce the progression to type 2 diabetes.