Diabetes self-management education reduces risk of all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis (original) (raw)

“…The burden increases when a person with diabetes begins to develop complications and gets older. Optimal self‐management behaviors have been shown to improve health outcomes of persons with diabetes (American Diabetes Association [ADA], ; He et al., ; Skinner et al., ; Yu, Xiao, Wang, & Wang, ). However, investigations reported that self‐management behaviors of persons with type 2 diabetes were suboptimal (Formosa & Muscat, ; Guo et al., ; Wabe, Angamo, & Hussein, ; Yu et al., ; Yusuff, Obe, & Joseph, ).…”