National Diabetes Education Program

Continuing Education

Diabetes at Work: What’s Depression Got to Do with It?

• Goal
• Objectives
• Target Audiences
• Developers/Authors
• Accreditation Statements
• Instructions for Obtaining Continuing Education Credit
• Release and Expiration Dates
• Disclosure Statement

Diabetes at Work: What’s Depression Got to Do with It?

Diabetes at Work: What’s Depression Got to Do with It? This new Web page has been developed as an additional resource for the National Diabetes Education Program’s (NDEP) Diabetes at Work Web site. This Web page describes the association between diabetes and depression, how these two chronic illnesses can impact an employee, and the role that employers can play in assisting employees who are experiencing both conditions.

Goal

The goal of Diabetes at Work: What’s Depression Got to Do with It? is to provide employers with information about the association between diabetes and depression, the economic cost of untreated depression, and the role that employers can take to help employees who are experiencing both illnesses.

Objectives

The following are the learning objectives for these materials: After this activity, the participant will be able to:

1. Describe the association between diabetes and depression
2. Describe the symptoms of depression
3. Describe why depression in diabetes is serious
4. Describe why employers should be concerned about depression in diabetes

Target Audiences

The target audiences that may best benefit from these materials include administrators, health educators, physicians, nurses, and business leaders.

Developers/Authors

This material was developed by staff members of the NDEP at CDC, the Division of Diabetes Translation at CDC, and staff from the National Institutes of Health. We would like to acknowledge the following staff members from NDEP, CDC, and NIH:

Pamela Allweiss, MD, MPH
Lemyra DeBruyn, PhD
Monica Lathan-Dye, MPH
Michelle D. Owens, PhD
Dawn Satterfield, PhD, RN

NDEP would like to acknowledge the following individuals for their contributions in reviewing and revising these materials:

Ann Albright, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Shereen Arent, JD, American Diabetes Association
Lawrence Barker, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Christine Hunter, PhD, National Institutes of Health
Jane Kelly, MD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Patrick Lustman, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine
Melissa Stankus, MPA, The Chelko Consulting Group LLC

NDEP would like to acknowledge the following individuals for pilot testing these materials:

Accreditation Statements

Continuing Education Credits are available for various professions.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.25 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

This activity for 1.25 contact hours is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is accredited as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is a designated event for the CHES to receive 1.0 Category I contact hours in health education, CDC provider number GA0082

The CDC has been reviewed and approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 800, McLean, VA 22102. The CDC has awarded .10 of CEU's to participants who successfully complete this program.

Instructions for Obtaining Continuing Education Credit

• Go to the CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online at http://www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline. If you have not registered as a participant, click on New Participant to create a user ID and password; otherwise click on Participant Login and login.
• Once logged on to the CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online Web site, you will be on the Participant Services page. Click on Search and Register. Enter the course number (WB1177) or a keyword under Keyword Search. Click on View.
• Click on the course title “Diabetes and Depression in the Workplace”. Select the type of CE credit you would like to receive and then click Submit. Three demographic questions will come up. Complete the questions and then Submit. A message will come up thanking you for registering for the course. If you have already completed the course you may choose to go right to the evaluation and post-test. Complete the evaluation and click Submit. Complete the post-test and Submit. A record of your course completion will be located in the Transcript and Certificate section.
• When asked for a verification code, please use DIABDEP-07.
• Continuing education credits for additional professions may be offered in the future. Visit www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline for updates.

If you have any questions or problems please contact:
CDC/ATSDR Training and Continuing Education Online
1-800-41TRAIN or 404-639-1292
E-mail at ce@cdc.gov

The materials and continuing education credits are free. Requirements for obtaining continuing education include reading Diabetes at Work: What’s Depression Got to Do With it?, registering on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s continuing education Web site (www.cdc.gov/TCEOnline), and completing an evaluation form and post-test.

Release and Expiration Dates

Release Date: March 3, 2008
Expiration Date: March 3, 2011

Disclosure Statement

CDC, our planners, and our content experts wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters. Content will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use.

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