* 80% of doctors do not prescribe or inform their patients with diabetes of any website to follow up their disease.
* 90% of the patients ensure that the instructions of these websites would follow.
* Attendees have known what are the latest advances in the cure of diabetes.
The objective was to learn to improve the control of diabetes through training, in a playful environment, optimism and surrounded by the best professionals.
And it has been achieved: the more than 1,500 participants in the IV edition of the Diabetes Experience Day, national event for patients with diabetes, which took place today in Madrid has been satisfied with its participation in the event, organized by Canaldiabetes, and in theThat through the talks and workshops, the participants have been able to know what the latest advances towards the cure of diabetes are, they have learned better tricks and techniques related to the management of their ailment and have shared their experiences in relation to other patients in relation to other patients in relation toDiabetes.
And more information is necessary to improve diabetes management.Good proof of this is the survey presented today at the Experience Day diabetes and made to more than 500 users - patients, caregivers and family - through the ED Diabetes app, created by Channel Diabetes in collaboration with Esteve.
The survey also shows that 80% of doctors do not prescribe or inform their patients with diabetes of any website to follow up their disease, despite the fact that 90% of the patients ensure that it would follow the indications of these websites.
This is a clear example of the informative barriers that still exist regarding diabetes.Barriers that patients constantly face, which every day must make about 30 decisions (10,000 decisions a year) referring to their ailment.Therefore, it is essential that patients receive correct and simple information, to help them address their diabetes from a closer and friendly point of view.
The study also reflects that 90% of respondents investigate the treatment after their visit to the doctor, using 25% of websites aimed at patients and in 24% websites aimed at professionals.The most demanded issues in these searches are mainly scientific advances and patient testimonies.
In the most playful slope of Diabetes Experience Day, a ‘showcooking’ workshop has been held, by the hand of the prestigious chef Ramón Freixa, (two Michelin stars) who will cook live, along with Dr. Teresa Lajo.Similarly, Alberto García Demestres, person with type 2 diabetes, composer and tenor, has interpreted the first opera centered on diabetes: ‘The Straordinary Vita di Sugar Blood’.The humorous point has come from the hand of Biológo Ricardo Moure.
In addition, the editions for the youngest (Teens Diabetes) and small (Diabetes Kids) have gathered almost 200 children and adolescents in various workshops, games and activities that have sought to train them in a better diabetes management.
