Effect of Self-management Education With Ongoing Support Using Social Media on Glycemic Control Among Patients With Diabetes Type 2.

Type 2 diabetes(DM2) consider a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Around 1.5 million deaths globally, are directly attributed to diabetes each year. Adults with diabetes have a two- to three-fold increased risk of heart attacks and strokes, approximately, one million people were blinded due to diabetes. Also, Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure.

Uncontrolled DM2 has a negative impact on the healthcare system, patients, and community. Similarly, it has an adverse impact on the quality of life by its harmful complications that increase patients' disabilities, high hospitalization rates, and 30-day readmissions rate. Patients with DM2 have a high prevalence of DM-related stress. Additionally, a lack of diabetes awareness threatened patients' self-esteem stability, autonomy, and patient's ability to self-care and manage .

in Jordan, about 74.5 % of patients with DM had uncontrolled diabetes, despite their good knowledge level about diabetes and its complications. however, this knowledge did not translate into the ability to change patients 'behaviors regard to self-care activities this means that we need more innovative programs that encourage patients to utilize the knowledge they have .

Several unstructured diabetes self-management education (DSME) aimed to increase patients' awareness of the disease and its management was performed in most healthcare settings, this type of education has a short-term impact on patients' attitudes toward self-care activities. a significant gap in primary care about diabetes-related knowledge and practices in caring for patients with diabetes, Previous research has documented a lack of sufficient communication about DSME between patients and physicians.

Diabetes care and education shall be designed with the integration of patient-centered care (PCC), which is a model of clinical practice aimed at shifting patient-provider relationships from authoritarianism to shared decision-making, PCC was described as "providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions".