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Physiology-Based Education For Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, Becca Barry, Cara Marie Gabriel, Brenna Lynn Olson
Physiology-Based Education For Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, Becca Barry, Cara Marie Gabriel, Brenna Lynn Olson
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Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a multisystemic disease that affects more than 370 million people worldwide and costs the U.S. Healthcare System over $245 billion per year (Kahn et al., 2013; Powers et al., 2015). Current diabetes education serves as a beneficial intervention method in the prevention and limitation of disease complications. Nevertheless, the current education regimen does not adequately convey the physiological reasoning behind those recommendations. Creating an educational tool that provides patients with physiological reasoning behind diabetes and treatment methods was needed to improve diabetes understanding. Neighborhood HealthSource expressed a need for easily understandable and accessible pathophysiology-based T2DM …