Diabetes and Emotional Health Handbook

The handbook and accompanying toolkit are practical, evidence-based resources aiming to support health professionals to identify, address and communicate about emotional health problems during consultations with adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

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Diabetes and emotional health – A practical guide

This guide supports health professionals to identify, address and communicate about common emotional health problems during consultations with adults living with diabetes.

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Diabetes and emotional health handbook – questionnaire cards (toolkit)

Master copies of the questionnaires referred to in the Diabetes and emotional health handbook are provided so that you can reproduce them for use in your routine clinical practice.

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An informational diagram titled 'Diabetes distress: 7 A's model'. The center features a circular flow diagram with colored icons representing the 7 steps: Aware (be aware of diabetes distress), Ask (ask about diabetes distress), Assess (assess using a validated questionnaire), Advise (advise about diabetes distress), Assist (assist with developing an achievable action plan), Arrange (arrange follow-up care), and Assign (assign to another health professional). Below the diagram, a structured section titled 'Be AWARE that people with diabetes may experience diabetes distress' includes bullet points defining the emotional burden of diabetes and listing behavioral, emotional, and clinical signs to look out for, such as sub-optimal HbA1c, missed appointments, or chronic stress

Diabetes and emotional health handbook – summary cards (toolkit)

Quick reference cards for a summary of an emotional health problem: how to recognise it and how to support the person experiencing it.

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