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In part 4 of this Exclusive Interview, Kathryn Kreider talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed about the two main steps to treat diabetes distress.
Kathryn Kreider is an Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, NC.
Transcript of this video segment:
Freed: And how do you treat diabetes distress?
Kreider: So, more studies are needed for treating diabetes distress. The first thing would be making sure that patients have appropriate diabetes self-management education. So, the DAWN 2 trial was a very large trial. Over 17 countries, over 8,000 patients showed that over half of patients had never had formal diabetes self-management education and that’s a really crucial part for making sure that patients are well equipped to manage diabetes. The second step from that would be the psychoeducation part and that might require referral to mental health providers to help with coping strategies, to help with problem solving in diabetes. We don’t have great pragmatic interventions for that right now, which is a need for this population. Those are really the two key treatment options and paths at this point.