Knowledge attitudes and practices of healthcare professionals regarding diabetes self management education and support

Petersmann, A. et al. Definition, classification and diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. Exp. Clin. Endocrinol. Diabetes. 127, S1–s7 (2019).

Article 
CAS 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Worldwide trends in diabetes. Since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants. Lancet. 387, 1513–1530 (2016).

Article 

Google Scholar 

Saeedi, P. et al. Global and regional diabetes prevalence estimates for 2019 and projections for 2030 and 2045: results from the international diabetes federation diabetes atlas, 9(th) edition. Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. 157, 107843 (2019).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Sun, H. et al. IDF diabetes atlas: global, regional and country-level diabetes prevalence estimates for 2021 and projections for 2045. Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. 183, 109119 (2022).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Zhong, V. W. et al. Achievement of guideline-recommended targets in diabetes care in china: A nationwide cross-sectional study. Ann. Intern. Med. 176, 1037–1046 (2023).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Alqahtani, A. A., Alzidany, A. M., Alenazi, S. M., Dhifallah, T. & Alotaibi, B. Long term complication of poor glycemic control in diabetic patients. EC Microbiol. 2, 1–7 (2020).

Google Scholar 

Wong, E. et al. Diabetes and risk of physical disability in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 1, 106–114 (2013).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Woon, L. S. C. et al. Depression, anxiety, and associated factors in patients with diabetes: evidence from the anxiety, depression, and personality traits in diabetes mellitus (ADAPT-DM) study. BMC Psychiatry. 20, 1–14 (2020).

Article 

Google Scholar 

Beck, J. et al. 2017 National standards for diabetes self-management education and support. Sci. Diabetes Self Manag. Care. 47, 14–29 (2021).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Chatterjee, S. et al. Diabetes structured self-management education programmes: a narrative review and current innovations. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 6, 130–142 (2018).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Hermanns, N., Ehrmann, D., Finke-Groene, K. & Kulzer, B. Trends in diabetes self-management education: where are we coming from and where are we going? A narrative review. Diabet. Med. 37, 436–447 (2020).

Article 
CAS 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Ross, J. et al. Health care professionals’ views towards self-management and self-management education for people with type 2 diabetes. BMJ Open. 9, e029961 (2019).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Chen, M. et al. A multisectoral and multidisciplinary endeavor: a review of diabetes self-management apps in China. BMC Public. Health. 23, 1859 (2023).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Wang, Y. P. et al. A multidisciplinary collaborative care model involving family members in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus and associated diabetes distress in young and middle-aged patients. Vojnosanitetski Pregled. 84–84 (2024).

Tong, W. et al. Reforming China’s secondary vocational medical education: Adapting to the challenges and opportunities of the AI era. JMIR Med. Educ. 10, (2024).

Tian, M. et al. China’s rural public health system performance: a cross-sectional study. PLoS One. 8, e83822 (2013).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Powell, R. E. et al. Strategies for overcoming therapeutic inertia in type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabetes Obes. Metab. 23, 2137–2154 (2021).

Article 
CAS 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Whitehouse, C. R. et al. Economic impact and health care utilization outcomes of diabetes Self-Management education and support interventions for persons with diabetes: A systematic review and recommendations for future research. Sci. Diabetes Self Manag. Care. 47, 457–481 (2021).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Malik, G., McKenna, L. & Plummer, V. Perceived knowledge, skills, attitude and contextual factors affecting evidence-based practice among nurse educators, clinical coaches and nurse specialists. Int. J. Nurs. Pract. 21 (Suppl 2), 46–57 (2015).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Fan, Y. et al. Development and psychometric testing of the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) questionnaire among student tuberculosis (TB) patients (STBP-KAPQ) in China. BMC Infect. Dis. 18, 213 (2018).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Muleme, J., Kankya, C., Ssempebwa, J. C., Mazeri, S. & Muwonge, A. A framework for integrating qualitative and quantitative data in knowledge, attitude, and practice studies: A case study of pesticide usage in Eastern Uganda. Front. Public. Health. 5, 318 (2017).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Masupe, T. et al. Diabetes self-management: a qualitative study on challenges and solutions from the perspective of South African patients and health care providers. Global Health Action. 15, 2090098 (2022).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Olesen, K., Hempler, N. F., Drejer, S., Valeur Baumgarten, S. & Stenov, V. Impact of patient-centred diabetes self‐management education targeting people with type 2 diabetes: an integrative review. Diabet. Med. 37, 909–923 (2020).

Article 
CAS 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Hermanns, N., Ehrmann, D., Finke-Groene, K. & Kulzer, B. Trends in diabetes self‐management education: where are we coming from and where are we going? A narrative review. Diabet. Med. 37, 436–447 (2020).

Article 
CAS 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Korytkowski, M. T. et al. Management of hyperglycemia in hospitalized adult patients in non-critical care settings: an endocrine society clinical practice guideline. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 107, 2101–2128 (2022).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Johnson, B. B., Jarvis, M. A. & Chipps, J. A. Self-management knowledge, attitudes and practices among persons with type 2 diabetes in Ghana. Afr. J. Prim. Health Care Fam. Med. 17, e1–e10 (2025).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Mekonen, E. G. Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards self-management among diabetic patients at Debre Tabor general hospital chronic diseases follow-up clinic, Northwest Ethiopia. Int. J. Diabetes Dev. Ctries. 41, 337–345 (2021).

Article 

Google Scholar 

Mekonnen, Y. & Hussien, N. Self-care related knowledge, attitude, and practice and associated factors among patients with type 2 diabetes in JMC, Ethiopia. Diabetes Metab. Syndr. Obes. 14, 535–546 (2021).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Nkomani, S., Simbarashe, R. & Blaauw, R. The impact of existing diabetes self-management education interventions on knowledge, attitudes and practices in public health care institutions in harare, Zimbabwe. S. Afr. J. Clin. Nutr. 34, 27–33 (2021).

Google Scholar 

Kudoh, R., Shibayama, T. & Hidaka, K. Nurses’ knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding oral management for outpatients with type 2 diabetes: a National survey on certified diabetes educators. Diabetol. Int. 13, 407–420 (2022).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Sugiharto, S., Natalya, W. & Widjanarko Otok, B. Healthcare providers’ knowledge, attitude, and perspective regarding diabetes self-management during ramadan fasting: A cross-sectional study. (2021).

Naqvi, A. A. et al. Validation of the general medication adherence scale in Pakistani patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Front. Pharmacol. 11, 1039 (2020).

Article 
CAS 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Qalati, S. A. et al. The general public knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding COVID-19 during the lockdown in Asian developing countries. Community Health Equity Res. Policy. 43, 239–248 (2023).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Shao, X. X. et al. Knowledge, attitude, and practice of patients living with inflammatory bowel disease: A cross-sectional study. World J. Gastroenterol. 29, 5818–5833 (2023).

Article 
CAS 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Wang, D. et al. Knowledge, attitudes, and practices among patients with diabetes mellitus and hyperuricemia toward disease self-management. Front. Public. Health. 12, 1426259 (2024).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Jia, W. Diabetes care in china: innovations and implications. J. Diabetes Investig. 13, 1795–1797 (2022).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Li, X. et al. Quality of primary health care in China: challenges and recommendations. Lancet. 395, 1802–1812 (2020).

Article 
CAS 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Debussche, X., Balcou-Debussche, M., Stéphane, B. & Traore, S. Challenges to diabetes self-mangement in developing countries. Diabetes Voice. 54, (2009).

Ezenwaka, C. & Eckel, J. Prevention of diabetes complications in developing countries: time to intensify self-management education. Arch. Physiol. Biochem. 117, 251–253 (2011).

Article 
CAS 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Mensing, C. et al. National standards for diabetes self-management education. Task force to review and revise the National standards for diabetes self-management education programs. Diabetes Care. 23, 682–689 (2000).

Article 
CAS 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Landu, Z. K. & Crowley, T. Primary health care nurses’ knowledge, self-efficacy and performance of diabetes self-management support. Afr. J. Prim. Health Care Fam. Med. 15, e1–e7 (2023).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Jia, W. & Tong, N. Diabetes prevention and continuing health-care reform in China. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 3, 840–842 (2015).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Xing, Q. et al. The development of a standardized framework for primary nurse specialists in diabetes care in china: A Delphi study. J. Nurs. Res. 27, e53 (2019).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Teoh, K. W. et al. Knowledge, attitude, and practice toward pre-diabetes among the public, patients with pre-diabetes and healthcare professionals: a systematic review. BMJ Open. Diabetes Res. Care 11, (2023).

Bani-issa, W., Eldeirawi, K. & Al Tawil, H. Perspectives on the attitudes of healthcare professionals toward diabetes in community health settings in united Arab Emirates. J. Diabetes Mellitus. 5, 1–11 (2014).

Article 

Google Scholar 

Uplinger, N., Turkel, M. C., Adams, P. C., Nelson-Slemmer, D. & Pierce, S. Development of a diabeates nurse champion program. Diabetes Educ. 35, 713–714, 716–718, 721–12 passim (2009).

Westberg, S. M., Bumgardner, M. A., Brown, M. C. & Frueh, J. Impact of an elective diabetes course on student pharmacists’ skills and attitudes. Am. J. Pharm. Educ. 74, 49 (2010).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Peyrot, M. et al. Diabetes attitudes wishes and needs 2 (DAWN2): a multinational, multi-stakeholder study of psychosocial issues in diabetes and person-centred diabetes care. Diabetes Res. Clin. Pract. 99, 174–184 (2013).

Article 
PubMed 

Google Scholar 

Liu, B. et al. Attitudes, and practices of chronic type 2 diabetes patients in China toward continuous glucose monitoring: an online questionnaire survey. Diabetes Metab. Syndr. Obes. 11–22 (2025).

Trifunovic-Koenig, M. et al. Correlation between overconfidence and learning motivation in postgraduate infection prevention and control training. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 19, 5763 (2022).

Article 
PubMed 
PubMed Central 

Google Scholar 

Ajzen, I. The theory of planned behavior: frequently asked questions. Hum. Behav. Emerg. Technol. 2, 314–324 (2020).

Article 

Google Scholar 

Related posts

LAMAT 2026 Team Expands Diabetes Education Across Saint Kitts and Nevis

Digital diabetes education improving rural communities in Arkansas

Medical Notes: Feb. 23, 2026