SESCAM and associations come together to improve diabetes training

The Virgen de Altagracia Hospital, under the Health Service of Castilla-La Mancha (SESCAM), has hosted this week the beginning of a course destined to update the knowledge in diabetes of the health personnel of the Manzanares area (Ciudad Real) that, ofRegular way, it serves people with this disease, both in primary and specialized care.

Diabetes is one of the chronic diseases with the highest prevalence in our society.In the last epidemiological studies carried out at the national level, there is a prevalence of 12% in over 20 years.With regard to Castilla-La Mancha, in the population over 30 years, prevalence rises to 18%.

The activity has been organized jointly by the Integrated Management of Manzanares, the Association of Educators in Diabetes de Castilla-La Mancha (Edicam) and the Association of People with Diabetes de Valdepeñas (Dival), entities that have added their forcesand collaboration to improve the training of professionals in the area.

A total of 86 professionals have registered to the 'Training Course in Diabetes' that consists of two editions and that has been the result of a study prepared by Alfonso Javier Muñoz, educator nurse of the Solana Health Center (Ciudad Real Real) that he was awarded as the best poster in Therapeutic Education at the XXXVI National Congress of the Spanish Society of Diabetes held in Valencia last April.

The objective of this study was to establish the relationship between the motivation of health professionals and their training needs in diabetes to determine the areas of improvement in their training, optimize the resources destined for this purpose and develop a comprehensive programof attention.

Course subjects

As a result, the areas that have been considered priority in the course are those related to the psychosocial impact of diabetes and the autonomy of the patient.Specifically, registered professionals have been trained in the theoretical/conceptual framework, self -analysis, self -control, self -care, patient's autonomy law, as well as in other aspects as labor law of people with diabetes, assessment of the family environment, empathy, assertiveness, assertiveness, emotional intelligence, etc.

Other issues that will be addressed in the course, which will continue on May 12 and 19 in Manzanares, are communication skills training, group dynamics or pedagogy applied to diabetes.Likewise, in the biological plane, new technologies, treatment with state -of -the -art drugs or nutrition formation and, specifically, carbohydrate counting.

The training course in diabetes ’has had experts such as Epifanio Mora, a doctor in pedagogy and diabetes education specialist;Carlos Miranda, family doctor of the Buenavista Health Center (Toledo) and National Coordinator of the Diabetes Group of the Spanish Society of General and Family Physicians (SEMG);or Javier Sanhonorato Vázquez, specialist in health law and president of the Association for Social Integration and Defense of Persons with Diabetes (ADDEISA).

The sharing of current issues related to diabetes is the way to keep knowledge a day related to this disease and, from a way, to provide the best attention to SESCAM users.

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