Diabetes and Foot Care Resources for Health Educators

Educational Materials National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP): Take Care of Your Feet for a Lifetime: Ten copies of brochure are free in English or Spanish. Order online or by calling: 1-888-693-NDEP. http://ndep.nih.gov/publications/PublicationDetail.aspx?PubId=67.

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Prevent diabetes problems: Keep your feet and skin healthy. Booklet is currently out-of-stock, but available for download in English and Spanish. https://catalog.niddk.nih.gov/detail.cfm?ID=387.

Lower Extremity Amputation Prevention Program: Foot Care for a Lifetime: A Comprehensive Guide for Care of the Insensitive Foot. Booklet with photos for download. www.hrsa.gov/hansensdisease/leap/footcareforalifetime.pdf.

Amputee Coalition: Take a Seat, Check Your Feet postcard. Order 500 copies free at: www.amputee-coalition.org.

American Diabetes Association (ADA): See Stop Diabetes® From Knocking You Off Your Feet campaign at: www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/complications/limb-loss-awareness/.

The ADA website, www.diabetes.org, includes a “Listen to Text” feature in both English and Spanish on most pages.

Free Living with Type 2 Diabetes Program:

Five information packages of ADA materials are sent by U.S. mail or by e-mail over a 12-month period in English or bilingual Spanish. To enroll, call 1-800-DIABETES or visit: www.diabetes.org/living.

Educators can request 50 copies of the 16-page booklet “Where Do I Begin?” to promote the program at: www.diabetes.org/atdx.

Learning about Diabetes: Easy-to-read materials in English and Spanish on all subjects related to diabetes including Tips for Good Foot Care handout and a 9-page Diabetes and Your Feet booklet. www.learningaboutdiabetes.org.

Migrant Clinicians Network: Daily Foot Care handout in English, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese. www.migrantclinician.org/toolsource/resource/mcn-daily-footcare-flyer-diabetics.html.

EthnoMed: Foot Care handout in Amharic, Khmer, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tigrinya, Vietnamese. http://ethnomed.org/patient-education/diabetes. Novo Nordisk Diabetes Care www.novomedlink.com/diabetes/for-your-patients.aspx.

Foot care Fact Sheet and Leg Exercises: 2-page handouts in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian.

Refugee Health Information Network: Diabetes and Your Feet brochure in English, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish. www.rhin.org/DocumentProperties.aspx?DocumentID=1930&RequestedLanguages=&RequestedFormats.

MedLine Plus: Articles include: Diabetes - Foot Ulcers and Foot Amputation - Discharge www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diabeticfoot.html.

Utah Department of Health http://choosehealth.utah.gov/healthcare/physician-resources/diabetes-manuals.php.

Diabetes Manual. See “Save Your Feet” on page 9 of 14 in the following languages:

Arabic

Farsi Spanish

Korean

Navajo

Portuguese

Russian

Samoan

Serbo-Croatian

Chinese: Trad. & Simplified

Tongan

Vietnamese

Diabetes Community Action Coalition, Inc. www.dcacfulton.org 740-807-1054 Revised 7/17/14

Diabetes UK www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Information-in-different-languages1. Neuropathy and Diabetes handout in the following languages:

Albanian

Arabic

Bengali

British Sign Language

Chinese (Trad.) Croatian

Farsi

French

Gujarati

Hindi Italian

Polish

Portuguese

Punjabi

Romanian Serbian

Somali

Tamil

Turkish

Urdu & Welsh

Diabetes Foot Care Videos

American Podiatric Medical Association: Video - Outsmarting Diabetes. www.apma.org/Learn/content.cfm?ItemNumber=1405&navItemNumber=557.

dLife.com Videos: Search for “feet” yields 13 videos. www.dlife.com/dlife_media/dlifeTv/dlifeTvHome.

Northwest University School of Medicine: Video - Diabetes and Your Feet in English and Spanish. http://cch.northwestern.edu/edtools/download.htm?vid=d_feet.

MedLinePlus: Diabetes – Foot Care interactive or self-playing tutorial includes 5-page handout. www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/diabetesfootcare/htm/index.htm?dbp.

Healthy Roads Media: Diabetes - What Can I Do to Take Care of My Feet? and How Can Diabetes Hurt My Feet? Video, audio, and handouts in English, Somali, Spanish, and Amharic. www.healthyroadsmedia.org.

CDC’s Tips From Former Smokers: Listen to stories from Bill, a former smoker with diabetes, who by the age of 40 had suffered the loss of a leg, blindness in one eye, and kidney failure. www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/resources/videos/bill-videos.html#bill-life.

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Health Care Provider Education and Information

National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) www.cdc.gov/diabetes/ndep.

A Health Care Provider’s Guide to Preventing Diabetes Foot Problems (2007) Working Together to Manage Diabetes: A Guide for Pharmacy, Podiatry, Optometry, and Dentistry (2014)

Lower Extremity Amputation Prevention (LEAP) Program: Six-module online course: Comprehensive Management of the Neuropathic Foot. Order free 10-gram monofilaments for foot exams at: www.hrsa.gov/hansensdisease/leap.

Indian Health Service: See Quick Guide Cards for Complete Diabetic Foot Exam video. Web-based training: 1) Diabetes Foot Care, 2) Preventing Amputations in Diabetes. CME/CE credit is available. www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/Diabetes.

Present Diabetes: See Lecture Hall for prerecorded lectures on diabetes and feet. CEU/CME credit is available. www.presentdiabetes.com/lecture_hall/Diabetic-Foot-s2.html#.

American Diabetes Association: Teaching Nonvisual Diabetes Self-Care - Choosing Appropriate Tools and Techniques for Visually Impaired Individuals. http://journal.diabetes.org/diabetesspectrum/97v10n2/pg128.htm.

Diabetes In Control.com: News and Information for Medical Professionals. Topics include: Advances in Healing the Diabetic Wound, Basic Management of Diabetic Foot Infections, Strategies In Preventing Diabetic Amputations. CEU/CME credits are available. www.diabetesincontrol.com/cme#diabeticfoot.

Institute for Preventive Foot Health: Articles, surveys, reports. www.ipfh.org/health-care-professionals.

Medicare’s Coverage of Diabetes Supplies and Services (CMS Pub# 11022): Includes info on therapeutic shoes and podiatry visits. Available in English, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese. www.medicare.gov/Publications.