title: Education and health professionals training programs for people with type 2 diabetes: a review of quality criteria.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To contribute to the development of a set of quality criteria for patient education and health professionals training that could be applied in European countries.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review quality criteria, pre-selection based on a comparison of the criteria, peer group and expert based selection of the criteria.
  
  
  RESULTS
  14 quality criteria were selected: goals, rationale, target group, setting, scheduling of the education/training sessions, environmental requirements, qualification of the trainers/educators, core components of the educator/trainer's role, curriculum, education methods, education didactics, monitoring of the effectiveness and quality of the program, implementation level and source of funding.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A set of preliminary quality criteria for patient education and health professionals training was developed, which could be applied in European countries.
authors.affiliation: Heinrich Heine University, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany.
authors.forename: Silke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuske
authors.affiliation: Heinrich Heine University, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Icks
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Jelka
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zaletel
authors.affiliation: Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Ulrike
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Rothe
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Jaana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lindström
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Directorate of Health, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sørensen
authors.affiliation: Centro Nazionale di Epidemiologia, Sorveglianza e Promozione della Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maggini
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends*; D005060:Europe; D006282:Health Personnel; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care