Operation mode and effect of the Sweet Home for diabetic patients

Objective To set up the new models of diabetic education which is suitable for our national conditions in order to improve the teaching effect.Methods Many of methods were used such as training and improving diabetes nurse educators' quality,expanding the forms of diabetes education to attract patients'participate,implementing individual education case management,setting up the intersection of patient and educational group,establishing a long-term management system to offer continuous support.Results Integrated development of diabetes nurse educators' quality was achieved.Thirteen diversified large scale educational activities as well as others different forms were performed.The member of Sweet Home for the diabetic patients was increased from 15 ～20 to 2 586 at the end of 2011.The average glycosylated hemoglobin of the members was 7.16％ ± 1.67％,among which,the percent of patients with HbA1c ＜ 6.5％ was 42.9％ and patients with HbA1c ＜ 7％ was 60.5％.The annual rate of outpatient was increased from 7.9％ of 2009 to 36％ of 2010 and 47％ of 2011.Conclusions The diabetes education performed in our Sweet Home which including innovative activities,individual case management,educational group,behavioral change,continuous support and selfcheer,can promote patients to participate in the diabetes education with enthusiasm and improve the result of diabetes education effectively. Key words: Diabetes; Eeducation; Individual case management; Behavioral change