An application of family meeting technique in home visiting: a case study of the patient with uncontrolled diabetes

Abstract

Diabetes is a chronic disease that requires continuing care. It affects the patients' and families' daily lives. Support diabetic patients regarding self-care can prevent potential diabetes complications, increase patients' self-care efficacy, and improve their quality of life. Home visit is one of the home health care services where a healthcare professional team visits a patient and family to provide health promotion and disease control by using health education and counseling or health advising for people to have appropriate self-care. The family meeting technique is designed to develop an effective communication among the family, healthcare professional teams, and patients. As a result, patients and their families could be better understanding about uncontrollable sugar level to normal level problems and a tendency to have lower average sugar levels, have better family relationships and a higher patient satisfaction, and accepted self-care methods, which lead to continuity of patients' and families' self-care.