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Abstract
It is hoped that Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University can play-as usual- a very important and central role in the field of improving the quality of life in diabetes through more research studies , teaching how to improve quality of life in diabetes and many other strategies.
B - Recommendations for the Ministry of Health:
1.Continuing medical education and training courses for family doctors in the field of improving the quality of life in diabetes.
2. Improvement of screening and recording programs for diabetes and its complications.
3 . providing health care to the patients and families with the availability of a videos, some posters, brochures and educational materials.
4. To facilitate getting all medical services ,immunizations, investigations, drugs…etc which needed for improving the quality of life in diabetic patients.
5. Must ensure that primary care physician are implementing these recommendation in daily practice.
C- TO Family Physicians:
1- For health care professionals, a key goal in treating diabetes is to help patients improve their quality of life by identifying and addressing diabetes-related issues.
2 .The role of the family Physician is very important in this field in many issues like early detection of risk factors, initial treatment of DM, early detection of presence of complications plus proper control of it, and community health education to control DM and improve the quality of life in diabetic patients.
3-Family Physicians should update their knowledge specially on the important role of non-pharmacological control and prevention of diabetes.
4-Family Physicians should offer care to all people with diabetes, with sensitivity to cultural wishes and desires.
5- Family Physicians should encourage a collaborative relationship, by actively involving the person with diabetes in the consultation, and creating opportunities for them to ask questions and express concerns to improve the outcome of the consultation.
6- Use a multidisciplinary care team with specific diabetes expertise maintained by continuing professional education.
7- Ensure that each person with diabetes is recorded on a list of people with diabetes, to facilitate recall for annual complications surveillance and provide telephone contact between clinic visits.
8 –Consider Emotional, psychological and practical support.
D- Recommendations to the patients and community:-
1. To encourage overweight persons to be active and do physical exercise frequently for weight loss.
2- High risk people must do their efforts to avoid clinical diabetes or its complications.
3 . Community should share of screening and immunization programs.
4 . Follow-up of diabetic patients to their blood sugar , appointments, adherence and encourage of lifestyle modifications to prevent development of diabetes complications.
5. People with diabetes should receive diabetes self-management education DSME at the time their diabetes is diagnosed and as needed thereafter.
6 . Health magazines must give more attention to the health of diabetic patients and their education.