Educação nutricional como forma de promoção do autocuidado no tratamento da Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease with high prevalence worldwide and treatment leads to complications that affect the quality of life, increase hospitalizations and increase health costs. Treatment, basically, includes lifestyle changes and the education can be adopted as a strategy that can contribute to the success of this process. It was observed that the most causes of hospitalizations is due to poor adherence to food treatment as well as fragility in nutritional guidelines. Through an adequate diet it is possible to improve the clinical and metabolic parameters of the disease, thus, conducting an educational approach to contribute to the autonomy for nutritional care may favor the reduction of Diabetes’ complications. The objective is to increase the autonomy for nutritional sef-care of diabetic patients admitted in an public hospital in Contagem, Minas Gerais. The proposal is to develop an educational intervention with patients and their families in two stages, the first consisting of bedside nutritional guidelines and distribution of interactive food care material. The second stage consists of nutritional monitoring, performed through a mobile app. As a result, it is expected that the implementation of the proposed actions may favor the adherence of diabetic patients to nutritional treatment plan, improve the quality of life, and contribute to reduction in hospitalization due to diabetes complications.