Need of Self-Management Education for Iraqi Diabetic Patients

Abstract

improving DM patients' knowledge and awareness about DM and its management by educating DM patients about appropriate diabetes self-management behaviors and practices. Unfortunately, till now, no comprehensive diabetes self-management educational program is adopted in Iraq.11 Although many diabetes self-management educational programs are developed and tested with positive outcomes in different countries but not one can be directly adopted, because they are evaluated in countries where patients have different health beliefs, practices, social and ethnic structures from Iraqi patients.12 Hence, the development and evaluation of an Iraqi-specific DSME program is crucial.