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 Patient Education Library, information on COVID 19 & Diabetes, and Patient Resources for Community Health Workers. Provides information on National DPP and a Consumer Guide (interactive tool allows for comparing products)
The Patient Education Library provides patient education handouts on a wide variety of topics in both English and Spanish. The handouts are written for high literacy patients.
Some handouts 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.
PDFs are reproducible.
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 for healthcare professionals and organizations at a cost of $25/handout, which allows reproducibility. If a healthcare professional or organization purchases at least five handouts, then the organization may add co-branding.
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, DKA, portion sizing, insulin administration, hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia, and living with diabetes.
It is written for low literacy patients and is available in eight languages.