Effectiveness of digital and remote provision of the Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To assess weight change in the Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP) delivered via video conferencing (remote) sessions or delivered via specific digital interventions through apps or websites, during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to group-based face-to-face interventions, pre-pandemic.

Methods

Prospectively collected national service-level data relating to individuals with non-diabetic hyperglycaemia (HbA_1c 42-47 mmol/mol (6.0%-6.4%) or fasting plasma glucose 5.5-6.9 mmol/L) referred to the NHS DPP from June 2016 to March 2022.

Results

Between March 2020 and March 2022, 335,961 people were referred to the programme and were offered a choice of remote or digital intervention. This was preceded by 556,793 people referred to the fac

SUBMITTER: Barron E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9878108 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature