Providing diabetes prevention services and navigating care transitions: perspectives from primary care providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This qualitative study examined how primary care providers (PCPs) prioritize addressing diabetes prevention with patients newly diagnosed with prediabetes and identified barriers and facilitators to providing diabetes prevention services (DPS). To examine transitions of care, we also evaluated how PCPs received and acted on screening information obtained outside of a primary care visit among their patients with prediabetes.

Methods

We interviewed PCPs practicing in Chicago using semi-structured interviews guided by the updated Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR 2.0) from March to May 2023. Framework analysis in combination with hybrid coding was used to analyze transcripts.

Results

Nineteen PCPs were interviewed, and most (58%) priorit

SUBMITTER: Smart MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12619162 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature