Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Intervention to the Military Setting.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Diabetes and obesity pose a significant burden for the U.S. military beneficiary population, creating a great need to provide evidence-based diabetes and obesity prevention services for military personnel, retirees, and their dependents. Despite increasing dissemination of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) lifestyle intervention nationwide, formal evaluation of implementation of this highly successful program is limited in the military setting. The purpose of this study is to prospectively evaluate delivery of a direct adaptation of a 1-year DPP lifestyle intervention at a U.S. Air Force medical facility, Wright-Patterson Medical Center (WPMC), to determine the feasibility of delivery of the program in a group of at-risk active duty military, retirees, and family m

SUBMITTER: Kramer MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10187478 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature