8 May 2015
Healthcare professionals who want to use video as a way of engaging patients to better self manage diabetes can use a new guide from Diabetes UK to help them direct patients to online video resources.
The guide - Video As A Resource In Diabetes Education (PDF,899KB) includes information about:
- different types of diabetes video available
- flexibility of video education
- engaging people with diabetes
- self management
- behaviour change
- recent innovations.
Getting the right information to patients with diabetes is crucial in raising awareness of the condition and to support them with self management. People learn through a range of different methods and video education is another resource healthcare professionals can use as well as traditional structured courses like DESMOND, DAFNE, and X-PERT.
"When a patient “reads” information from a pamphlet they read it in their own voice – a voice that might be feeling depressed or disheartened about the possibility of managing their disease. When a patient “hears” the same information delivered by an expert clinician or expert patient they are more likely to overcome their negative perception of their own health situation.
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Dr Mike Osborn, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Royal United Hospital NHS Trust Bath
Recent Innovations
There are numerous videos about diabetes available online, varying in standard and approach. Recently a series of online videos have been developed, in which healthcare professionals offer their advice and people with diabetes talk about their experiences of managing diabetes.
