Comparative Effectiveness of Patient-Driven versus Standardized Diabetes Shared Medical Appointments: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diabetes self-management education and support can be effectively and efficiently delivered in primary care in the form of shared medical appointments (SMAs). Comparative effectiveness of SMA delivery features such as topic choice, multi-disciplinary care teams, and peer mentor involvement is not known.

Objective

To compare effects of standardized and patient-driven models of diabetes SMAs on patient-level diabetes outcomes.

Design

Pragmatic cluster randomized trial.

Participants

A total of 1060 adults with type 2 diabetes in 22 primary care practices.

Interventions

Practice personnel delivered the 6-session Targeted Training in Illness Management (TTIM) curriculum using either standardized (set content delivered by a health educator) or patie

SUBMITTER: Kwan BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11576683 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature