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diabetes mellitus often termed modern epidemic india ranks second china global disease burden practice adherence essential selfcare behaviors positively correlated good glycemic control reduced complications people diabetes inadequately understood especially semiurban setting communitybased interventional study done among 269 known adult type 2 diabetic patients semiurban community south india three months simple random sampling known diabetics identified health survey tertiary care teaching institute considered study selfcare practices diabetes recorded pretest using validated semistructured questionnaire two health education sessions 30 minutes conducted 1520 subjects group health education materials selfcare diabetes charts handouts video clippings powerpoint presentations local language used selfcare practices rerecorded posttest two months inferential statistics carried ttest analysis variance anova pearson correlation coefficient pvalue less 005 considered statistically significant results total 253 diabetic subjects included final analysis attrition rate 6 mean age participants 565 119 years mean score selfcare practices among diabetic subjects baseline 146 132 illiteracy smoking habit significantly associated lower selfcare scores pretest posttest health education significant improvement mean selfcare practices score reduction mean fasting blood sugar level also significant mild negative correlation selfcare scores blood sugar levels seen pearson correlation coefficient 021 p 0001 selfcare practices satisfactory diabetic participants found significantly impacted small group education stresses need effective health education sessions envisaged national program