Cost of a group translation of the Diabetes Prevention Program: Healthy Living Partnerships to Prevent Diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although numerous studies have translated the Diabetes Prevention Program lifestyle intervention into various settings, no study to date has reported a formal cost analysis.

Purpose

To describe costs associated with the Healthy Living Partnerships to Prevent Diabetes (HELP PD) trial.

Design

HELP PD was a 24-month RCT testing the impact of a lifestyle weight-loss intervention administered through a diabetes education program and delivered by community health workers (CHWs) on blood glucose and body weight among prediabetics.

Setting/participants

In all, 301 participants with prediabetes were randomized in Forsyth County NC. Data reported in these analyses were collected in 2007-2011 and analyzed in 2011-2012.

Intervention

The lifestyle weight-l

SUBMITTER: Lawlor MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3839056 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature