Change Your Environment to Self-Manage Diabetes
Dr. Shirley Moore Discusses SystemCHANGE
Posted 9/6/11
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Shirley M. Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN |
Associate Dean for Research and Mellen Professor of Nursing Shirley Moore spoke at the American Association of Diabetes Educators conference last month on a new trend in self-management programs for diabetes: SystemCHANGE.
She developed it as an ecological theory that considers four main influences of environment on behavior: family, physical, social, and community. Any one of these environments can be a focus for change. This approach “takes into account the… accommodation between a person and the… setting in which the person lives,” she explains.
“The goal is to make your desired behavior the default behavior," she says. "Make the easy thing to do the right thing to do."
Source: Diabetes Self-Management
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