Community Diabetes Education Program Evaluation "Code Evaluation"

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Behavioral: Education for diabetes self-management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00151190

HSC-SPH-05-0092

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is intended to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of a community diabetes education program administered by a community health worker in a low-cost community clinic. We expect an improvement in overall glycemic control in the experimental group of at least 20%. We also expect to document improvement in diabetes self-management skills, quality of life and an increase in achievement of ADA standards of care4 in the experimental group.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• people with no health insurance

Exclusion criteria

• people with any type of health insurance coverage