Cluster of Webinars on Diabetes Health Care Management

1. Organisers
2. Topics
3. Content
4. Who can participate
5. Registration
6. Further information

ORGANISERS

This series of webinars are organised by the Danish Diabetes Academy in collaboration with our Visiting Professors Timothy Skinner and Frans Pouwer.

TOPICS

The following topics will be covered during a series of four 40 minute sessions, of which 30 minutes are dedicated to the lecture and 10 minutes for answering questions.

CONTENT 

Below you can see a short description of each webinar.

EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH OUTCOMES BETWEEN CENTRES: PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL GOALS
by Professor Timothy Skinner, School of Psychological and Clinical Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Australia

Not all diabetes centres are equal, in that they do not all achieve the same outcomes for the people with diabetes they are trying to serve.  Although this can often reflect differences in the funding, resources and client mix in difference centres (especially when comparing between centres in different countries), even when these are controlled for, substantial differences in the outcomes between centres persist.  Using data from a series of studies attempting to understand differences in outcomes between paediatric diabetes centres, and work looking at differences outside of the diabetes context, this seminar will explore the role of professional goals and teamwork in determining the success of patient goals.

THREAT VS AGENCY: PROMOTING SELF-CARE BEHAVIOUR
by Professor Timothy Skinner, School of Psychological and Clinical Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Australia

One of the biggest challenges in diabetes and other chronic conditions is engaging individuals in optimal self-care, e.g taking medications, make optimal food and activity choices, monitoring their condition.  Cochrane reviews continue to document that lack of progress in impacting on the self-care of people with chronic conditions.  One issue is that many health care professional still focus on fear and the threat of complications to motivate people.  This seminar will review the evidence base for the effectiveness of this approach, and compare this with approaches that promote a sense of agency in people with diabetes.  This will be used to highlight simple, evidence based strategies that can be integrated into routine clinical practice to increase the odds of engaging people in more optimal self-care

DIABETES AND DEPRESSION: A BURDENSOME COMBINATION
by Professor Frans Pouwer, Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark

This webinar will focus on diabetes and depression.

DIABETES DISTRESS: PREVALENCE AND TREATMENT
by Professor Frans Pauwer, Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark

This webinar will focus on diabetes and distress.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE

All interested are welcome to attend but registration is required (see below).

REGISTRATION

In order to participate in one or more of the stated webinars, you need to submit a registration using the "sign-up to event" button above If you missed the registration deadline, please send a e-mail to kristine.michailidis@rsyd.dk, who can provide you with a link to the meeting room and a user guide.

On the day before the given webinar, attendees will receive a link via e-mail to an online Adobe Connect meeting room, where you will be able to write questions in the chat window, raise hand, repsond to polls (if any) and download files.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information about the webinars please contact: 
Education Manager Kristine Melgaard Michailidis, kristine.michailidis@rsyd.dk