There are many diabetes patient education resources accessible online. The following is a list of additional resources that provide reliable patient education.
Provides clinical support, including a Patient Education Library, COVID-19 and diabetes information, patient resources for Community Health Workers, National Diabetes Prevention Program information, and an interactive Consumer Guide for comparing products.
The Patient Education Library offers handouts on a wide range of topics in English and Spanish. Handouts are written for patients with higher health literacy. Some are publicly available, while others require an account and American Diabetes Association membership.
Fact sheets on various diabetes topics including general information, complications, emotional health, gestational diabetes, lifestyle modifiers, and managing diabetes.
Handouts are mixed in literacy level but primarily higher in literacy level.
Easy to understand diabetes care handouts that include drawings to illustrate topics.
Written for low literacy patients.
Many materials are publicly available in eight languages.
Also offers a selection of resources for health care professionals and organizations at a cost of $25/handout, which allows reproducibility. If a health care professional or organization purchases at least five handouts, then the organization may add cobranding.
MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health.
Provides a Basics of Diabetes Patient manual and illustrated handouts on topics including alcohol, carbohydrate foods, exercise/chair exercises, complications, diabetic ketoacidosis, portion sizing, insulin administration, hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia, and living with diabetes.