Comparative Effectiveness of Family DSMES and Standard DSMES Among Diverse Populations

Family Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support demonstrates the effectiveness of family-centered models of DSME that explicitly address diabetes self-management within a family context by educating both patients and family members and focusing on family motivational interviewing, family goal setting, understanding supportive and nonsupportive behaviors, and family behavioral changes.

Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support demonstrates the effectiveness of individual model DSMES that explicitly address diabetes self-management within an individual context by educating individual patients on individual motivational interviewing, individual goal setting, and individual behavioral changes.