title: Guidelines for facilitating a patient empowerment program.
abstract: The traditional medical treatment model often ignores the emotional, spiritual, social, and cognitive aspects of living with a chronic disease such as diabetes. Empowerment programs address these psychosocial areas by helping individuals develop skills and self-awareness in goal setting, problem solving, stress management, coping, social support, and motivation. Although many diabetes educators have been taught to use an empowerment curriculum to facilitate self-management, there is minimal research concerning the actual process of providing such programs to patients. We evaluated an empowerment curriculum (Empowerment: A Personal Path to Self-Care) with a diverse group of individuals with diabetes to determine the key elements of planning and implementing a successful diabetes patient empowerment program.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Butler
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Funnell
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Feste
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003479:Curriculum; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012648:Self Care