AUTHOR=dos Santos Mamed Marcelo , Gastaldi Giacomo 

TITLE=COVID: The Missing Trigger to Start a Remote FIT Course

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare

VOLUME=3

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/clinical-diabetes-and-healthcare/articles/10.3389/fcdhc.2022.834082

DOI=10.3389/fcdhc.2022.834082

ISSN=2673-6616

ABSTRACT=<p>Type 1 diabetes management is a highly demanding task that largely falls on people with diabetes, their family, and their peers. Diabetes self-management education and support aim at increasing knowledge, skills, and confidence to take appropriate diabetes management decisions. The current evidence shows that efficient diabetes self-management relies on person-centered interventions and a team of pluri-disciplinary educators with expertise in diabetes care and education. The irruption of the COVID-19 pandemic has increased diabetes burden and the need to offer remote diabetes self-management education services. The present article offers a perspective about expectations and quality issues related to the implementation of a remote version of the FIT course, a validated structured diabetes management educational program.</p>