At the beginning of 2017, LMC 糖尿病与内分泌科 published a paper in the journal of Health and Quality of Life Outcomes about our novel tool – LMC Skills, Confidence & Preparedness Index (SCPI). SCPI is a new tool that can be used to assess self-management behaviours in patients living with diabetes—it measures three key aspects including knowledge of a skill, confidence in being able to perform the skill and preparedness to implement the skill.
The overall results of this initiative has showed the following:
“这 Skills, Confidence & Preparedness Index 是 a brief 和 easy to administer new scale that 是 more comprehensive than existing tools. It should be 用过的 to assess self-management in patients with diabetes, optimize the resources applied to each patient, 和 determine educational needs 和 direct clinical management. 这 scale should be further evaluated in a broader population of patients with diabetes.”
To learn more about SCPI and this LMC initiative, click 这里 to view the article.