Diabetes self-management education through peer support has been beneficial, especially in regions with limited medical resources. Studying the effects of education offered by trained peers of patients will facilitate tailoring the peer-led education programs to the regions’ specific needs. Here, we evaluated changes in diabetes-related indicators in Filipino patients who received a peer-led education. We used data on 23 patients (age, 67.83 ± 6.69 years; 82.6% female) who participated in all five surveys performed every 6 months from March 2017 to March 2019. After the second survey until the end of this study, the participants were educated in diabetes self-management by their 13 peers who previously had received the training in diabetes self-management. Participants’ knowledge of diabetes and the related ‘cause, risk factors, nature of diabetes and complications’ subindicator were greater on all surveys after starting the peer-led education compared with those on the second survey (i.e. before starting the education); these values did not differ between the first two surveys. Because increasing patients’ knowledge can enhance their ability to self-manage their disease and thus improve their quality of life, strategies to expand patients’ knowledge about diabetes should be included when organizing peer-led education in regions with limited medical resources.

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在接受同伴主导的教育后，资源有限社区的糖尿病患者的知识水平得到提高

通过同伴支持进行糖尿病自我管理教育是有益的，特别是在医疗资源有限的地区。研究受过训练的患者同伴提供的教育效果将有助于根据该地区的具体需求定制同伴主导的教育计划。在这里，我们评估了接受同伴主导教育的菲律宾患者糖尿病相关指标的变化。我们使用了 23 名患者（年龄，67.83 ± 6.69 岁；82.6% 女性）的数据，这些患者参与了 2017 年 3 月至 2019 年 3 月每 6 个月进行一次的所有五次调查。第二次调查后直至本研究结束，对参与者进行了教育由 13 名之前接受过糖尿病自我管理培训的同伴进行糖尿病自我管理。与第二次调查（即开始教育之前）相比，在开始同伴主导教育后的所有调查中，参与者对糖尿病以及相关“病因、危险因素、糖尿病性质和并发症”子指标的了解都更高；这些值在前两次调查之间没有差异。由于增加患者的知识可以增强他们自我管理疾病的能力，从而提高他们的生活质量，因此在医疗资源有限的地区组织同伴主导的教育时，应包括扩大患者对糖尿病知识的策略。