A feasibility pilot trial of a peer-support educational behavioral intervention to improve diabetes medication adherence in African Americans.

ABSTRACT:

Background

African Americans are twice as likely to die from diabetes, compared to other racial and ethnic groups in the USA. Poor adherence to diabetes medications is common among African Americans and contributes to these disproportionally worse outcomes. A pilot study was conducted to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a peer-supported intervention targeting diabetes and medication beliefs, communication, and self-efficacy skills to enhance medication adherence among African Americans with type 2 diabetes.

Methods

Based on the extended self-regulatory model and information-motivation-behavioral skills model, this intervention was piloted using a single group pre/post-intervention study design at two sites. Seventeen African Americans who self-reported as adher

SUBMITTER: Shiyanbola OO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9660113 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature