Mobile-Enhanced Peer Support for African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes: a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Peer support has been shown to improve diabetes self-management and control, but no standard exists to link peer support interventions to clinical care.

Objective

To compare a community-based diabetes self-management education (DSME) plus mobile health (mHealth)-enhanced peer support intervention to community-based diabetes self-management education (DSME) alone for African American adults with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes.

Design

A randomized controlled trial.

Participants

African American adults, age > 19 years, receiving care within a safety-net healthcare system in Jefferson County, Alabama, with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and a hemoglobin A1c (A1C) ≥ 7.5%.

Interventions

Participants in the intervention group received community-ba

SUBMITTER: Presley C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7572958 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature