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Nurse-led self-management education and support programme on self-management behaviour and quality of life among
Dereje Chala Diriba1, Doris Y P Leung1, Lorna K P Suen2
1School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Aim:
This study examined the preliminary effects of a nurse-led self-management education and support programme on the self-management behaviours and quality of life among people with type 2 diabetes in Western Ethiopia.
Methods:
A pilot randomized controlled trial was conducted between January and August 2021. Participants were recruited in the hospital and randomly assigned to the control arm to continue usual care (n = 38) or the intervention arm to receive usual care and the diabetes self-management education and support programme (n = 38) in the community. Self-management behaviours and quality of life were assessed using a 10-item summary of diabetes self-care activity (expanded) scale and a 34-item diabetes quality of life measure, respectively, at baseline and 2 months after follow-up. Generalized estimating equation models were used to examine the preliminary effects of the programme on the outcomes.
Results:
Preliminary results indicated that the programme outperformed usual care in self-management practise, with large effect sizes immediately postintervention and at 2 months after the intervention, and quality of life at 2 months after the intervention.
Conclusion:
A nurse-led diabetes self-management education and support intervention, including the families of people with diabetes, may be an option to boost the self-management practise and quality of life of patients with diabetes.
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