Implementation of a culturally tailored diabetes intervention with community health workers in American Samoa.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this article is to answer key implementation questions from our translation research with a primary care-based, nurse-community health worker (CHW) team intervention to support type 2 diabetes self-management.

Methods

Descriptive data are given on intervention delivery, CHW visit content, patient safety, and intervention costs, along with statistical analyses to examine participant characteristics of higher attendance at visits.

Results

In the intervention sample (n = 104), 74% (SD = 16%) of planned intervention visits occurred, guided by an algorithm-based protocol. Higher risk participants had a significantly lower dose of their weekly assigned visits (66%) than those at moderate (74%) and lower risk (90%). Twenty-eight percent of participants

SUBMITTER: DePue JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4062972 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature