GELECEĞİN DİYABET YÖNETİMİ: TELE DİYABET

Today, the use of telehealth services in the monitoring and treatment of chronic diseases has increased. Telehealth enables healthcare services to be delivered to individuals through established networks. Telediabetes is aimed at individuals who use diabetes-specific applications or diabetes-related devices. Diabetes, which is among the chronic diseases, needs telehealth because it requires long-term treatment and holistic care. Telehealth provides self-management of diabetes and improves quality of life by supporting the individual with diabetes in acquiring health care behaviors. Telehealth applications aim to reduce hospital visits, adequately meet the increasing demand for diabetes care, and solve the factors that prevent individuals living in regions with limited health facilities from effectively managing diabetes by remote monitoring and control. Studies indicate that the use of telehealth in diabetes enables the regulation of glycemic control, compliance with treatment and prevention of complications. Rozzano Locsin Technological Competence Theory, which is a practice model that incorporates telediabetes into the nursing process and specifies the harmony between technology and nursing care, aims to ensure that the nurse handles the diabetic individual multidimensionally and provides original care in distance education through telediabetes. It also puts the individual at the center of diabetes management and enables them to take an active role. With telediabetes, one of the benefits of technological innovations, disease management of individuals with diabetes can be done remotely. By facilitating access to specialists, it eliminates factors that prevent access to health care and plays a role in preventing complications that may occur. The aim of this review is to examine the effectiveness of using telehealth, which is becoming widespread with technology, in diabetes management