The influence of demographic, health and psychosocial factors on patient uptake of the English NHS diabetes prevention programme.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prevention of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a major concern for health services around the world. The English NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS-DPP) offers a group face-to-face behaviour change intervention, based around exercise and diet, to adults with non-diabetic hyperglycaemia (NDH), referred from primary care. Previous analysis of the first 100,000 referrals revealed just over half of those referred to the NHS-DPP took up a place. This study aimed to identify the demographic, health and psychosocial factors associated with NHS-DPP uptake to help inform the development of interventions to improve uptake and address inequities between population groups.

Methods

Drawing on the Behavioral Model of Health Services Utilization we developed a survey questionna

SUBMITTER: Reeves D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10091609 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature