Authors

1Anna Mª Català Sugrañes, 2Mª Àngels López Ester, 3Concepció Fuentes Fumarola

Position

1Enfermera. Máster en Promoción de la Salud. Hospital Universitario Josep Trueta, Girona. 2Enfermera Especialista en Enfer

Contact address

Anna Mª Català Sugrañes. C/ Barris i Buixó, 43, 4ª B. 17200 Palafrugell (Girona).

Contact email: annamaria.catala@yahoo.es

Abstract

Diabetes is a health, economic and social problem of great magnitude requiring great attention to plan prevention and control programs of the disease. In Spain, the annual incidence of childhood type 1diabetes is slightly below the world average which is 13,5/100,000 inhabitants with a 12,5. Treatment of diabetes aims to achieve stable levels of blood glucose and with this objective action is taken in three key areas that are the basis of diabetes education: diet, insulin and exercise. These areas make up the self-control of the diabetic child.
Parents of children with diabetes need to have information and develop skills and abilities to effectively manage the disease, which is achieved through Diabetes Education programs, as in childhood diabetes treatment is not administered by the patient but by the caregivers. When they are little, children depend exclusively on parental responsibility and continuity in the treatment involves, in most cases, adherence to treatment, both in habits as in behavior. In this paper we propose a pediatric diabetes education program in a hospital setting with incorporated assessment, based on Bandura´s social learning theory. The development of such learning program is carried out in four days for parents of children admitted to a hospital with a diagnosis of incipient diabetes mellitus. The main objective is for the family to be able to develop an initial management of the disease that enables parents to obtain a sufficient degree of autonomy after discharge once the disease stabilized.

Keywords:

Child Diabetes Mellitus; equation programs; health education; health promotion; nursing care; protocols

Versión en Español

Título:

Programa de educación diabetológica infantil basado en la teoría del aprendizaje de Bandura