Review: Self-management Support Program on Dietary Behaviors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Background: Dietary behaviors are the cornerstone in diabetes management. Diabetes self-management support program in which patients play an active role to determine their health care is an important strategy to improve dietary behaviors in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. Its elements which contribute to the successfulness of the program need to be identified.Purpose: To review and identify the elements of self-management support program to improve dietary behaviors in T2DM patients.Method: An integrative review was conducted. Relevant studies published in English language during last 10-year, measured dietary behaviors in T2DM patients, and retrieved from CINAHL and PubMed were included.Results: 13 experimental studies and 3 meta-analysis studies were reviewed. Goal setting and action planning combined with other strategies (brief counseling and problem solving) seemed more effective to improve dietary behaviors. Either trained lay people or clinicians could lead the program although clinician-led programs were common. Contents and materials of the education vary across the studies. The effects on dietary behaviors could be detected in short term duration of program (<6 months). Continuing follow-up was essential element which face-to-face follow-up as the most common strategy. The utilization of technology such as telephone-call and internet based follow-up might provide more benefits for patients.Conclusion: Diabetes self-management support program is effective to improve dietary behaviors in T2DM patients. Further research is needed to test the effectiveness of goal setting strategy and technology utilization for follow-up strategy such telephone call in Indonesian T2DM population

Knowledge management support for enterprise distributed systems

Explosion of information and increasing demands on semantic processing web applications have software systems to their limits. To address the problem we propose a semantic based formal framework (ADP) that makes use of promising technologies to enable knowledge generation and retrieval. We argue that this approach is cost effective, as it reuses and builds on existing knowledge and structure. It is also a good starting point for creating an organisational memory and providing knowledge management functions

PlanetOnto: from news publishing to integrated knowledge management support

Given a scenario in which members of an academic community collaboratively construct and share an archive of news items, several knowledge management challenges arise. The authors' integrated suite of tools, called PlanetOnto, supports a speedy but high quality publishing process, allows ontology-driven document formalization and augments standard browsing and search facilities with deductive knowledge retrieva

INTEGRATION VERSUS DEDICATION IN ROMANIAN MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS

The technologies supporting future business must be intuitive from a user standpoint, flexible from design standpoint and highly productive. As an answer to many requirements, analysts recommend the inclusion of SOA and ESB in the IT management strategies, since these tend to become mainstream, overcoming their abstract vision status in the last decade. In this paper, we provide a study regarding the attitude of companies from north-western Romania with respect to this transition and the SOA&ESB models. Our analysis targets attributes such as: level of understanding, knowledge and concern in adopting such technologies, the management involvement in the company IT strategy, the added value of the new technologies and risk factors for the migration towards an SOA&ESB architecture.integration,enterprise applications,web applications,SOA,ESB,framework

Global trends in risk management support of agriculture

The aim of this paper is to make an international comparison of risk management policies in OECD countries as well as in selected emerging economies. The results are based on the data from OECD Producer Support Estimates Database and General Services Support Estimates Database, a study of agricultural insurance schemes carried out by the European Commission and an overview of risk-related policy measures formulated by the OECD. The results indicate that all OECD countries have the price stabilizing support for at least some commodities. Although the share of market price support in the producer support estimates has been decreasing for a long time, it still remains an important component in most countries around the world. The analysis also revealed the pilot experiences with index based insurance in developing countries whose economy is considerably dependent on agriculture.Agriculture, agricultural policy, risk management, market price support, income stabilization, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Environmental Economics and Policy, Financial Economics, International Relations/Trade, GA, IN,

Data management support pack

This pack is designed to help you produce high quality, reusable and open data from your research activities. It consists of documents, templates and videos covering the different aspects of data management and ranging from the overarching concepts and strategies through to the day-to-day activities. For each of the videos in the pack we have included a transcript of the narrative. The Data Management Support Pack was created to support the implementation of the CCAFS Data Management strategy

Process Management Support System

Procesní rízení je do firem zavádeno stále časteji. Pro jeho podporu existuje řada systémů, ať již placených nebo zdarma. Tato práce se zabývá tvorbou jádra takového systému procesního řízení. Lze zde nalézt teoretický rozbor procesního řízení a srovnání některých existujících systému. Hlavní část práce tvoří návrh, implementace a testování procesního systému. Výsledkem práce je jádro procesního systému a webová aplikace sloužící k otestování systému.Process management is used by companies more frequently than ever. There are many systems for process support. Some of them free, some of them required payment. This theses is about creating core of process management system. You can find there theoretical analysis of process management and comparison of some process management systems. Main part of this theses consist of designing, implementing and testing of process management system. Contribution of this work is core of process management system and web application, which enable user testing of system.

Rural Self-Management Support

The Rural Self-Management Support research project used an individually-focused health self-management support intervention to help people with disabilities locate resources for health support in rural America. This intervention led to better long term maintenance of health self-management behaviors compared to the control condition which did not include a focus on locating health resources. Future research will continue to look at how local communities impact long term health

The Effect of Dietary and Exercise Self-Management Support Program on Dietary Behavior Exercise Behavior and Clinical Outcomes in Muslim Patients with Poorly Controlled Type 2 DM in a Community Setting in Indonesia

Purpose: The objective of this study was to examine the effect of dietary and exercise self-management support program on the dietary behavior, exercise behavior, and clinical outcomes of Muslim patients with poorly controlled type 2 DM in Indonesia. Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental, two group, pre-test and post-test design. The experimental group received the dietary and exercise self-management support program and usual care, whereas the control group only received the usual nursing care.Result: 35 subjects in the experimental group and 35 subjects in the control group completed the program, respectively. The findings indicated that there are significantly differences in dietary behavior (p=.00), exercise behavior (p=.00) and clinical outcomes: fasting blood glucose (FBG) (p=.00), cholesterol total level (p=.01) and systolic blood pressure (p=.00) between the experimental group and control group. However, for the BMI status (p=.84) and diastolic blood pressure (BP) (p=.32) were no significant differences between two groups. Conclusion: The dietary and exercise self-management support program was effective for improving the dietary behavior, exercise behavior, FBG, and total cholesterol level for individuals with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus. Further studies should be replicated using larger groups over a longer time frame