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Volume
3:
No. 3, July 2006
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
A Church-based Diabetes Self-management Education Program for African Americans With Type 2 Diabetes
This diagram shows the design of the randomized controlled trial. The diagram reads from top to bottom. A box at the top is labeled 揃aseline Measures?and includes a list of measures that were collected for all participants: 揌emoglobin A1c [HbA1c], Diet, Physical Activity, Weight, and Psychosocial Factors.?The circle below indicates the next step, 揜andomize 24 Churches (Total of 201 Participants).?Below this circle are two columns, one on the left labeled 揝pecial Intervention (13 Churches, 117 Participants)?and one on the right labeled 揗inimal Intervention (11 Churches,
84 Participants).?In the Special Intervention column is a box labeled
"Church-based Intensive Intervention" that includes the four components of the intervention: 揙ne Individual Dietary Assessment and Goal-Setting Visit,?揟welve Group Sessions,?揗onthly Telephone Contact With Church Diabetes Advisors,?and 揟hree Printed Messages From Physician.?The next box in the column shows the next step, ?-Month Follow-up Measures? 揌bA1c, Diet, Physical Activity, Weight, and Psychosocial Assessment.?Below that is a box showing 揅hurch-based Reinforcement Period?that includes 揗onthly Telephone Contact With Church Diabetes
Advisors.?The last box in the column shows ?2-Month Follow-up Measures? 揌bA1c, Physical Activity, Weight, Psychosocial Factors.?/p>
The first two boxes in the Minimal Intervention column are 揟wo ADA Pamphlets on Diabetes Self-Care?and 揟wo Program Newsletters.?They lead to the same ?-Month Follow-up?box in the Special Intervention column. The next box in the Minimal Intervention column is labeled 揙ne Program Newsletter.?This box leads to the same final ?2-Month Follow-up?box in the Special Intervention column.
Figure. Randomized controlled trial diagram, A New Dawn. ADA indicates American Diabetes Association.
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