Construction of self-management manual for diabetic patients in community
Objective To build a community self-management manual for diabetes patients.Methods A research team was established.Based on literature review,the team completed the first draft of the self-management manual for dia-betic patients in the community by questionnaire survey and semi-structured interview.The Delphi method was used to con-duct 2 rounds of expert correspondence consultation on the issues related to the first draft to 10 experts and analyze the re-sults to form the final draft.Results The effective recovery rate of expert opinion in the two rounds of correspondence was 100%,the degree of expert authority was 0.885 and 0.905,and the coordination coefficient of expert opinion was 0.357 and 0.500,respectively.The final edition of the manual included 4 first-level indicators(manual introduction,ba-sic personal information,record items and health education),30 second-level indicators and 118 third-level indicators.Conclusion The successful construction of community self-management manual for diabetes patients provides a practical and effective evaluation tool for long-term self-management of diabetes patients.