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Behavioral and Educational Approaches to Diabetes Self-Management

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Diabetes is a life-long disease managed primarily by the individual.1 The key to successful self-management of this chronic disease is to provide the individual with knowledge, psychomotor skills, and effective psychological coping to facilitate lifestyle modification.2 The process of adult learning is not an exact science. It is highly individualized. Oftentimes the clinician would find that strategies successful for one person might not be successful for others.

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  1. Division of Endocrinology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

    Leonid Poretsky M.D. (Chief, Professor of Medicine) (Chief, Professor of Medicine)

  2. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Leonid Poretsky M.D. (Chief, Professor of Medicine) (Chief, Professor of Medicine)

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Mendoza, M.A., Walker, E.A. (2004). Behavioral and Educational Approaches to Diabetes Self-Management. In: Poretsky, L. (eds) Principles of Diabetes Mellitus. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6260-0_28

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