Diabetes Self-Management 

The Diabetes Self-Management Program is a six-week course for people with diabetes, offering practical strategies to manage symptoms, stress, and emotions. Content is reviewed annually to align with current American Diabetes Association standards. Sessions meet weekly for 2 ½ hours and are led by two trained facilitators.

What is Covered in the Program?

  • Disease related problem solving
  • Communication skills
  • Managing emotions
  • Glucose Monitoring
  • Developing patient/physician partnership
  • Use of community resources
  • Nutrition
  • Managing medications
  • Advanced directives
  • Cognitive symptom management
  • Program Outcomes
The Division of Family and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine at Stanford University developed, tested and evaluated this program and found the following:
  • Subjects who took the program, when compared to those who did not, demonstrated significant improvements in exercise, cognitive symptom management, communication with physicians, self-reported general health, health distress, fatigue, disability, and social/role activities and limitations
  • Spent fewer days in the hospital
  • Trend toward fewer outpatient visits and hospitalizations
  • Cost to savings ratio of 1:10

For more information about program outcomes and Stanford's Chronic Disease Self-Management program,
visit their website.
For workshops in all New Hampshire Counties please contact:
Southern NH AHEC Program Coordinator
128 State Route 27, Raymond, NH 03077 | Email: [email protected]​