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6 Ways Health Coaches Can Support Clients Struggling with Diabetes

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Diabetes is a complicated disease that may coexist with various health issues. Genetic, personal, societal, and environmental factors cause it. Health coaches assist individuals in managing diabetes, although medical guidelines for detecting and treating diabetes are widely recognized.

Diabetes Management Strategies

Diabetes is a complicated disease that needs ongoing monitoring, treatment, and control. It impairs food metabolism. It prevents our cells from using glucose, the building block of carbs and their main energy source. Insulin resistance, which prevents cells from using glucose, or pancreatic cell disintegration may cause this.

Diet and exercise may regulate blood glucose. However, medication and exogenous insulin may be needed depending on the diabetes stage.

Diabetes is a chronic condition with no cure, although medical and dietary advances have helped diabetics live healthy lives. Physicians and other primary care professionals follow these diabetes management guidelines:

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  • Screening and diagnosing diabetes. This classifies type 1, type 2, pre-diabetes, and gestational diabetes.
  • Lifestyle changes for diabetes prevention include weight reduction, physical exercise, and sustainable food behaviors.
  • Assessing metformin’s necessity.
  • Providing and teaching glucose monitoring tools.
  • Identifying insulin needs and delivering and teaching insulin tools.

US doctors’ diabetes cycle of care includes numerous support and coaching aspects. Still, most primary healthcare providers lack the time and skills to engage patients with behavior modification techniques. Diabetes patients benefit from health coaches.

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6 Ways Health Coaches Support Diabetes Clients

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Connecting With Clients In A Way That Makes Sense 

Health coaches help clients by finding and using efficient communication channels between medical visits. Diabetes health promotion initiatives utilized digital health technologies before the COVID-19 epidemic.

In a 2019 intervention and study, people with diabetes who used health promotion apps with a virtual health coach integration had better diabetes control than those who just used the app. Thus, tailored digital communication improved glycemic control. The research shows how health coaching ideas may be applied to several communication mediums.

Empower Patients Toward Self-Efficacy

Health coaches help clients gain confidence to manage their health by understanding their condition and treatment and seeing how to make realistic changes to manage their blood glucose and other diabetes symptoms. Over the last decade, health coaching has grown in primary healthcare settings.

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Knowledge, confidence, and agency create self-efficacy. “The individual’s conviction in her or his competence to execute actions essential to accomplish certain performance attainments” is self-efficacy.

Self-efficacy helps diabetics manage their chronic condition. Health coaching has been shown to help clients adopt and maintain healthy habits. Health coaching improves self-efficacy in people with diabetes by teaching them goal-setting, problem-solving, and cognitive and emotional obstacles management.

Showing Empathy & Offering Support

Health and wellness coaching requires active listening and understanding your clients’ health history, sociocultural milieu, and challenges to

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