Unfortunately, it can be
deduced that the counselling
offered to type 2 diabetes patients
still represents a disease-centred
approach and poorly responds to
the coping resources which patients
have described: nurses focused on
medication instead of individual
everyday life or health-promoting
and empowering aspects, such as
meaningfulness and manageability.
This is regardless of the fact that
there is evidence that, for example,
empowerment-based counselling
programmes are effective and
behavioural goal-setting is a useful
strategy to support self-management
behaviours. However, it is
also recognised that lack of
resources, time and translating the
theory into practice can function as
barriers for implementing patientcentred
counselling in practice.