May 2008
Volume 4, Issue 5
 

New & Updated Resources from NDEP

2008 Diabetes Numbers At-a-Glance*
Designed for health care professionals, the updated 2008 Diabetes Numbers At-a-Glance* reference card is a convenient, pocket-sized guide to help diagnose and treat pre-diabetes and diabetes. Health care professionals can use the card and easily find recommendations from the American Diabetes Association for diagnosing and managing patients with diabetes. The guide also provides treatment goals by giving a range of healthy blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol numbers for patients with diabetes, as well as a diabetes management schedule.

Tips to Help You Stay Healthy*
This tip sheet has been reformatted to serve as a companion piece to the 4 Steps to Control Your Diabetes. For Life. brochure and provides a three-part action plan for managing diabetes. It encourages people with diabetes to know their A1C, blood pressure, and cholesterol, and manage their diabetes to reach their target numbers.

To order or download these free diabetes resources, click here

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REMINDER: NDEP's Support Behavior Change Committee Issues Call for Existing Tools and Resources

Last month, we informed you that NDEP is working to compile existing tools and resources that can better help us work with people with diabetes, people at risk, and their health care teams as they work to make behavior changes that are at the core of good outcomes, and we continue to look for your suggestions as to what constitutes best resources. 

NDEP’s Support Behavior Change Committee was formed to assemble and review research, programs, and tools that address the need to transition people with and at risk for diabetes from awareness to action to make small lifestyle changes that will help them to control or prevent diabetes. In turn, NDEP will work to share these resources with the diabetes community to help ensure that people with diabetes and those at risk have the information and behavioral skills they need to take action.

We need to identify and assemble any and all existing resources on behavior change. Please send us three kinds of materials: 

Programs and/or curricula that have been used effectively to empower and teach those with diabetes how to make small lifestyle changes

Individual tools for people with and at risk for diabetes that work – whether the format is a one-page tip sheet, a 20-page booklet, or an online resource; and

Research, or links to research, that demonstrate effective ways to engage people with and at risk for diabetes in lifestyle or behavior change efforts or coping strategies.

SEND MATERIALS AND/OR LINKS TO: Garry Curtis, Hager Sharp Inc., 1090 Vermont Avenue NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005 or gcurtis@hagersharp.com. If you have immediate questions, please contact Joanne Gallivan at 301-496-6110 or Joanne_Gallivan@nih.gov. Thank you for helping NDEP in our efforts to motivate people with diabetes and those at risk to take appropriate action to prevent or manage the disease.

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NIDDK's Judith Fradkin Interviewed on NIH Radio

Judith Fradkin, M.D., director of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health recently promoted NDEP’s Control Your Diabetes. For Life. campaign on NIH Radio. During the interview, Dr. Fradkin, who serves on NDEP’s Executive Committee, discussed three questions older adults newly diagnosed with diabetes should ask their health care team to learn more about managing their ABCs – as measured by the A1C test, blood pressure, and cholesterol.

The interview can be found in its entirety by clicking here.

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NDEP Promotes Diabetes Resources for Newly Diagnosed Older Adults & Asian and Pacific Islanders in May

For older adults who have been told by a health care professional that they have type 2 diabetes, it is normal for them to feel anxious or uncertain. NDEP is currently promoting a new feature article entitled, “Dealing with a Diabetes Diagnosis as an Older Adult*” to print and online media during Older Americans Month to help older adults understand that although diabetes is a serious disease, they can learn to manage it. The article explains what a diabetes diagnosis means, how to manage the ABCs as measured by the A1C test, blood pressure, and cholesterol. It also provides sample questions they can ask their health care team, and it highlights small changes they can make to learn to manage diabetes. For more information about diabetes in older adults, click here.

Also in May, NDEP is targeting Asian American and Pacific Islander media to promote its new 4 Steps to Control Your Diabetes. For Life. Asian and Pacific Islander language adaptations (Chinese, Cambodian, Korean, Samoan, Thai, Tongan, Tagalog and Vietnamese) through the Control Your Diabetes. For Life. campaign.

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Mark Your Calendars: Upcoming NDEP Promotions

In June, NDEP will promote its new “Ten Ways to Shape Up Your Family Reunion to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes*” list to African American print and online media using a summer family reunion theme. The list includes 10 practical tips for African Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes and their families on losing weight, making healthy food choices, and incorporating more physical activity into family reunions. African Americans are also encouraged to find out if they have a family history of the disease and, if so, to take steps toward lowering their risk for type 2 diabetes and improving their health. For more ways to prevent type 2 diabetes in African Americans, click here*.

In July, NDEP will promote a new feature article to general print and online publications that highlights easy and inexpensive ways to help people at risk for diabetes choose more fruits and vegetables instead of higher calorie foods to help them lose weight and lower their risk for type 2 diabetes. For more ways to prevent type 2 diabetes, click here.

In each issue of News & Notes look for NDEP promotional tools that are ready for you to personalize, customize, and distribute.

By using our promotional tools, everybody wins. Your community newspaper receives a story with important health information for its readers, your organization receives good publicity, and you help NDEP continue to be the nation’s No. 1 resource for free information and materials on diabetes control and prevention. Each issue of News & Notes features tools that tie into the following month’s promotions and can help us promote NDEP together.

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Tips for Working with NDEP: How to Order NDEP Materials

One way to work with NDEP is to use its free diabetes education materials at your next community health event and to feature NDEP campaigns, messages, and materials at your exhibit table or booth. All materials may be downloaded, reproduced, and distributed without copyright restrictions. Feel free to duplicate and disseminate as many copies of these materials as desired. Here’s the information to help you get started.

Many materials can be ordered in quantities as large as 200 copies, and the first 25 copies of most materials are free. NDEP’s Publications Catalog addresses the quantity available for each NDEP material. Additionally, commercial printer-ready CDs are available for most materials. You can provide these CDs directly to a printer as is, or add your organization’s logo and contact information. To order printer-ready CDs for a specific NDEP material, call the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse at 1-800-860-8747.

Remember, single copies of materials are free. Shipping and handling fees are included in the price of all materials. Please allow three to five weeks for delivery. Bulk orders must be prepaid in U.S. dollars in form of a check, money order, purchase order, or credit card. You may also send a U.S. Postal Money Order or a check instead of using a credit card. However, personal checks will delay your order as the clearinghouse must wait for your funds to clear before any merchandise is shipped. Please allow an additional seven to 10 business days.

Order online by visiting NDEP’s online publications catalog at www.YourDiabetesInfo.org/diabetes/pubs/catalog.htm and follow these steps:

  1. Browse the publication(s) available from the NDEP catalog.
  2. Select the desired quantity from the drop-down menu.
  3. Click “Add to Cart” to order from the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse. Note: To order multiple publications, click the “Back” button in your browser, and repeat Step 3 (above) for each publication desired.
  4. To complete your order, click “Check Out” on the NDIC website, and enter all information before clicking “Submit.”

NDEP also has an online Spanish-language publications catalog available.

Order by phone by calling 1-888-693-NDEP (6337). Both English and Spanish-speaking consumers can order materials from this number.

Order by fax or mail. Print the order form and complete the required fields. Then either fax the form to 1-703-738-4929 or mail it to: 

NIDDK Information Clearinghouses Publications Catalog
5 Information Way
Bethesda, MD 20814-9262

For more information on NDEP’s new publication order limits or to order materials or CDs, visit www.YourDiabetesInfo.org or call 1-888–693-NDEP (6337).

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NDEP Asian and Pacific Islander Materials Promoted Via Podcasts

In recognition of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, NDEP strives to raise awareness of the impact of diabetes in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and the availability of free in-language resources through NDEP. Two new podcasts at www2a.cdc.gov/podcasts focus on the impact diabetes has on these populations and promote NDEP materials. Rising Tide of Diabetes Among Asian Americans includes an interview with a Cambodian American woman living with diabetes. Rising Tide of Diabetes Among Pacific Islanders includes an interview with a Tongan/Samoan American woman whose family has been deeply affected by the disease.

Thanks to NDEP partner organizations Khmer Health Advocates and the National Tongan American Society for identifying these incredible speakers who volunteered to share their personal stories.

The podcasts focus on the seriousness of diabetes, importance of follow-up with the health care team, the role of diet and physical activity, and conclude with a message of hope that diabetes can be controlled and prevented or delayed. A link to NDEP publications in Asian and Pacific Islander languages is also provided.

Download these podcasts or link to the website to use in your outreach during Asian Pacific Heritage Month.

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Merck Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes

The Merck Company Foundation has announced a new initiative called the Merck Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes. The goal of the Alliance is to help decrease health care disparities and improve access to quality diabetes prevention and management services among underserved adult populations.

The purpose of the Alliance is to work with national, regional, and community partners to develop, implement, and disseminate comprehensive, evidence-based program models to improve diabetes prevention and management around the country. The Alliance will also work to encourage information sharing and best practices among health care professionals and other interested parties seeking to reduce disparities in diabetes care.

Later this year, the Foundation will announce several five-year health care disparities and diabetes programs in selected communities around the country. These programs will be chosen through a competitive Call for Proposals process and the Foundation is currently seeking letters of intent for proposals to develop comprehensive diabetes prevention and management programs that would help to reduce disparities in diabetes care. The letters of intent for proposals are due May 23.

For more detailed information about the Alliance and the Call for Proposal process, visit www.merck.com/cr/alliance.html, call 1-866-354-4943, or email merckalliance@rti.org.

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NKDEP's Family Reunion Initiative Helps Families Make the Kidney Connection

Diabetes and high blood pressure are the two leading causes of kidney disease, but many people with these conditions don’t know they are at risk. The free Family Reunion Health Guide, developed by the National Kidney Disease Education Program, has everything families need to talk about the connection between diabetes, high blood pressure, and kidney disease at family reunions this summer. Visit www.nkdep.nih.gov/familyreunion or call 1-866-4-KIDNEY to get your free copy.

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On the Road with NDEP

Look for the NDEP exhibit at these upcoming conferences:

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