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A patient-centric, provider-assisted diabetes telehealth self-management intervention for urban minorities.

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: This article describes the design and implementation of an online diabetes self-management intervention for a sample of inner-city African Americans with diabetes. Study participants were randomly assigned to the treatment (26) and control (21) conditions. The results indicate that treatment group participants were more likely to achieve positive outcomes in terms of lowered hemoglobin A1c and body mass index measurements than were control group members. These findings support the development of telehealth interventions to promote effective chronic disease management in medically underserved communities.

Source: PubMed Central

Authors: Ernest L Carter, Gail Nunlee-Bland, Clive Callender

Institution: Howard University Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Diabetes Management and Education

Subfield: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Award: A Research Center to Reduce Ethnic Disparities in ESRD