Endocrine Abstracts

Adolescent diabetes social stigma in India. Such diabetics needs proper guidance/information/treatment-counselling outlets. This is burning issue in developing-nations like India. Hence we all need to unite and form a comprehensive diabetes care and counselling policy plan at ICE/ECE-meeting-2012. Treatment options must be suitable for developing-nations considering cost of Rx. Incorporating NGO’s in such efforts is very effective.

Our project methodology: Our 15-year-old NGO started diabetes education-project in rural India from 2005. we started s education and surveillance project to analyze social and anthropological issues facing those affected by adolescent diabetes. Total 62 adolescents subjects enrolled by Feedback questionnaires to get their feedback on special needs, perceptions, social attitude on diagnosis of diabetes. Factors like community-inhibition, social-ostracism, economic-difficulties, marital discord, non-availability of treatment-guidance centres, lack of trained-staff analysed and draft policy is recommended to Govt-agencies.

Lessons learned: diabetes management must include care of nursing and psycho-social needs. Here role of NGO’s is very effective in terms of cost-management, better impact and better-compliance of diabetics. Community mass intervention projects has proven useful in rural communities of resource poor-nations. ICE/ECE-Florence-congress-participants can collaborate with NGO-activists to address this issue. Uniform public health policy needed to implement and expand newer strategies to include broader range of diabetes care-issues.

Recommendations: Promoting dialogue between Government-health-services and NGO’s accelerates diabetes education/awareness programs. NGO participation improves cost-efficacy of such initiatives in economically poor populations. This would reduce difficulties faced by young diabetics from Asian countries. It is essential that WHO, ICE/ECE form common guideline manual on this issue affecting developing-countries. We graphically present our NGO’s project on diabetes patients education project in four phases to ICE/ECE-2012-congress-participants.

Declaration of interest: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest that could be perceived as prejudicing the impartiality of the research project.

Funding: This research did not receive any specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sector.