Influencing Self-Management: From Compliance to Collaboration

Greater understanding of diabetes and its treatment, new technology and improved therapies have dramatically changed the clinical care of diabetes. Unfortunately, implementing newer evidence-based findings for understanding and impacting self-management and diabetes self-management education has not kept pace. Much of what we do is based on traditional beliefs and methods that are simply not effective. To effectively influence diabetes self-management, we must begin to move from lecturing to listening and compliance to collaboration.