CE/CME

Diabetes Screening, Diagnosis and Management

Welcome to the training on Diabetes Screening, Diagnosis and Management provided by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).

Credit Hours: 1.75 CE

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Goal

The goal of this module is to equip Texas Health Steps providers and other interested health-care professionals to provide age-based testing and anticipatory guidance for children and adolescents, apply current standards of medical care and promote medication adherence and effective management. 

Target Audience

Texas Health Steps providers and other interested health-care professionals.

Specific Learning Objectives

After completing the activities of this module, you will be able to:

  1. Apply Texas Health Steps guidelines for routine and age- and risk-based diabetes evaluation and age-appropriate anticipatory guidance.
  2. Differentiate the disease characteristics of various forms of diabetes, primarily type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
  3. Apply the American Diabetes Association’s Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes for children and adolescents.
  4. Integrate communication strategies that promote medication adherence, caregivers’ support and effective management, including nutrition and physical activity modification.

All data cited in the module reflect the most recent year for available data.

Please note this module expires on 3/16/2024.

This module was released on 3/16/2021.

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Definitions

The medical definitions provided in this module were obtained from the American Diabetes Association, Mayo Clinic, Merck Manual, U.S. National Library of Medicine, and WebMD.

Helpful Resources

  • Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRCs) operated by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). The centers are welcoming and offer information about state and federal health benefits as well as local programs and services. The trained staff can connect caregivers with services such as home care, meals, transportation, legal help, attendant care, respite support and housing. Visit the ADRC website for a list of resource center locations in Texas.
  • American Diabetes Association. Loved Ones: Managing Diabetes, a web page with educational resources for families.
  • American Diabetes Association. Help for Parents web page.
  • Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists. Resources for People Living with Diabetes
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Living with Diabetes website, which offers a variety of educational information.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Diabetes Education Program. Resources for Children and Teens.
  • National Alliance for Caregiving.
  • Navigate Life Texas, a multilingual website created by parents for parents of children with disabilities and special health-care needs. This site offers comprehensive, relevant and reliable information for families, professionals, advocates and anyone working with children who have disabilities and their families. Sponsored by the Texas Interagency Task Force on Children with Special Needs.
  • Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Family Support Services, a program to help families care for children with special health-care needs at home. Services are provided by the Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Services Program.
  • Texas Department of State Health Services. Diabetes in Children website.
  • Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Take Time Texas, provides assistance with respite care.
  • Texas Parent to Parent, a parent-led organization that offers peer support for parents of children with special health-care needs.

Continuing Medical Education

The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service is accredited by the Texas Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Continuing Nursing Education

The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service has awarded 1.75 contact hour(s) of Continuing Nursing Education.

Social Workers

The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service, the continuing education provider, ensures that the education provided is directly related to the practice of social work; and that the individuals presenting the information have the necessary experience and knowledge in the topics presented. The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service has awarded 1.75 hours of credit.

Certificate of Attendance

The Texas Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service has designated 1.75 hour(s) for attendance.

Disclosure - DIAB 2021

One of the requirements of continuing education is disclosure of the following information to the learner:

  1. Notice of requirements for successful completion of continuing education activity. To receive continuing education credit the learner must successfully complete the following activities:
    • Create a Texas Health Steps account.
    • Complete on-line registration process.
    • Thoroughly read the content of the module.
    • Complete the on-line examination.
    • Complete the evaluation.
  2. Commercial Support.
    The THSTEPS Web-based Continuing Education Series has received no commercial support.
  3. Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships.
    The THSTEPS Continuing Education Planning Committee has the following relevant financial relationships to disclose:
    • Sarah Lyons - Physician - Volunteer Member of the American Diabetes Association's Professional Practice Committee - Receives Royalty from McGraw-Hill Education Inc. for "Vanderbilt Med-Peds Outpatient Curriculum."
  4. Non-Endorsement Statement.
    Accredited status does not imply endorsement of any commercial products or services by the Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Service; Texas Medical Association; or American Nurse Credentialing Center.
  5. Off-Label Use.
    Using a disclosure review process, the THSTEPS Continuing Education Planning Committee has examined documents and has concluded that the authors of these modules have not included content that discusses off-label use (use of products for a purpose other than that for which they were approved by the Food and Drug Administration).

The following are policies and definitions of terms related to continuing education disclosure:

The intent of disclosure is to allow Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Continuing Education Service the opportunity to resolve any potential conflicts of interest to assure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all of its Continuing Education activities.

All faculty, planners, speakers and authors of Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Continuing Education Service sponsored activities are expected to disclose to the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Continuing Education Service any relevant financial, relationships with any commercial or personal interest that produces health care goods or services concerned with the content of an educational presentation. Faculty, planners, speakers and authors must also disclose where there are any other potentially biasing relationships of a professional or personal nature.

Glossary of Terms

Conflict of Interest: Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect Continuing Education content about products or services of a commercial interest with which she/he has a financial relationship or where there are any other potentially biasing relationships of a professional or personal nature.

Commercial Interest: Any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.

Financial Relationships: Those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities for which remuneration is received or expected. Relevant financial relationships would include those within the past 12 months of the person involved in the activity and a spouse or partner. Relevant financial relationships of your spouse or partner are those of which you are aware at the time of this disclosure.

Off Label: Using products for a purpose other that that for which it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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