Desenvolvimento de uma tecnologia educativa sobre contagem de carboidratos para pessoas com Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

This study has the goal to make a bibliographic review about the efficacy of the carbohydrate counting upon the metabolic and glycemic control, elaborate an educational booklet to facilitate and to make flexible the food choices of the diabetic patients, to assist in the disease control and avoid complications. It is an integrated review of the specialized literature with qualitative approach that has been made through indexed articles search at Virtual Health Library with the support of The National Center for Biotechnology Information (Pub Med). The inclusion criteria were the integral gratuitous database since 2017 to 2021. The exclusion criteria were incomplete articles, divergent and ones did not reply the guiding question. In the end, nine scientific articles were taken. The results showed effective metabolic control for who made the carbohydrate counting and improving of the glycemic control with freedom and food choices flexibilization. It is an effective strategy to allow glycemic control, safety and quality of life. The review allowed to accomplish an educative technology by means of a carbohydrate counting booklet to make easy the understanding about the diabetes and simplify food choices day by day. It was concluded that the carbohydrate counting is a proper tool since favors best food choices and a healthy life, for this purpose was made an educational booklet about the understanding of diabetes and healthy eating aiming at learning carbohydrate counting with food group tables.