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01-04-2020 | Care | Capsule Commentary
Capsule Commentary on White et al., The Partnership to Improve Diabetes Education Trial: a Cluster Randomized Trial Addressing Health Communication in Diabetes Care
Authors:
Amy Cunningham, PhD, MPH, Allison Casola, PhD, MPH, Erica Li, MD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 4/2020
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Excerpt
The cluster randomized trial by White et al.
1 compared two provider-focused diabetes education programs in 10 randomly assigned safety-net clinics. Providers at five clinics were trained in the Partnership to Improve Diabetes Education (PRIDE)
2 diabetes education toolkit with low-literacy/numeracy content and received health communications training. Providers at the comparison clinics were trained in the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
3 as standard diabetes education. The authors found that both the PRIDE and NDEP arms significantly improved the primary outcome of 12-month A1c levels and the secondary outcomes of odds of poor eating, treatment satisfaction, and self-efficacy. There were no significant differences between treatment arms. …
