Introduction:

Diabetes mellitus is becoming into a global magnitude problem, affecting the life of people who suffer it, especially when a suitable control is not achieved, diabetes education has been considered a good tool to change persons conduct and establish healthy life styles.

Objective. Identify the effect of an educational intervention about self-care in diabetes mellitus and its complications, through the review of bibliographic evidence.

Material and methods.

A bibliographic review of the current literature on educational interventions in Mexico and the Americas was carried out which provide information on the effect that they achieved in the management , knowledge effect in people with the disease, complications, self-control and self-monitoring impact of the disease, the people lifestyles changes and adherence to treatment. Search engine studies such as Crossref Metadata, CONACyT magazines, PubMed, Latindex and Elsevier were chosen.

Results:

a change has been demonstrated in people who participated in educational interventions, because they have been reduce their plasma glucose levels, get more information about the characteristics of the disease, treatment and physical conditions to avoid complications of the disease such as vascular ulcers, so they modify their lifestyles.

Conclusions.

A diabetes educational intervention is necessary because increase knowledge about risk factors of the disease and favors a better metabolic control, which lead a direct effect on the people with diabetes lifestyles. This means that the results are not negative.

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