Study protocol: The Technology-Enhanced Coaching (TEC) program to improve diabetes outcomes - A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Racial and ethnic minority adults with diabetes living in under-resourced communities face multiple barriers to sustaining self-management behaviors necessary to improve diabetes outcomes. Peer support and decision support tools each have been associated with improved diabetes outcomes.

Methods

290 primarily African American adults with poor glycemic control were recruited from the Detroit Veteran's Administration Hospital and randomized to Technology-Enhanced Coaching (TEC) or Peer Coaching alone. Participants in both arms were assigned a peer coach trained in autonomy-supportive approaches. Coaches are diabetes patients with prior poor glycemic control who now have good control. Participants met face-to-face initially with their coach to review diabetes educatio

SUBMITTER: Heisler M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5510884 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature