Development of the dietary management evaluation instruments for diabetes mellitus patients

Dietary management plays an important role in the diabetes mellitus therapies. Effective dietary management can find the deficit of dietary management in patients with diabetes mellitus. Recently these tools primarily were consisted in the comprehensive diabetes mellitus management instruments and a fraction of the ones aim at the evaluation of the dietary management for diabetes. Timely and effective assessment of the effect on diabetes diet management depends on these tools. Therefore, the feasibilities, usefulness and deficit about these instruments were analyzed to prompt the application and investigation of the instruments in the future. Key words: Diabetes mellitus; Review; Evaluation instruments; Dietary management