Abstract: Diabetes is a common chronic disease, which is characterized by long course of disease, high incidence rate and many complications. At present, the population of diabetes patients in China is huge, and the management of diabetes is facing great challenges. At present, many decision aids for diabetes have been developed abroad, but there are still few studies on decision aids for diabetes in China, and there are only a few reports on diabetes management. The authors summarized the application progress of decision aids in diabetes management, clarified its development status and its enlightenment to nursing management, and provided ideas and directions for the development of decision aids for Chinese patients with diabetes.