A group from the University of Virginia School of Nursing was in Grand Bahama to assist in a diabetic education program.
Heading the group was Dr. Ishan Williams who said that this program started in 2010, when they first came and worked with their counterparts here and did a descriptive study looking at how adults with Type 2 diabetes manage their diabetes.
As a follow up, Williams returned with Viola Holmes Registered Dietician and Certified Diabetes Educator, also from the University, bringing along with them some educational tools from the U.S. which Williams said they found to be successful.
Williams added that they are recruiting Bahamians with type 2 diabetes who would like to do a four week type of intervention. Interested persons are to contact the Rand Memorial Hospital for information.
Williams stressed that their main aim is to educate patients on better ways to self manage their diabetes.
She said they have similar challenges in the U.S. and that management of this disease is a lot about what one eats and how they eat what they eat.
She said that they are trying to see if they can support one another in some of the things they have learned in the U.S. and determine if it would work here in The Bahamas as well.
