Evaluation and Comparison of the Diabetes Conversation Maps® and the Central Gippsland Health Service

(Five-week diabetes group program)

Australia • 2013

Baseline (usual care group): No difference in knowledge, self-care activities, or empowerment baseline and post-survey for usual care group.

Conversation Map^® Group: significant improvement in knowledge, self-care activities, and empowerment when comparing baseline and post-intervention surveys for Map Tools/intervention group; no difference in satisfaction between usual care and treatment groups; HbA1C results improved for both groups; average A1c reduction for both groups was 6.7% (p-value = 0.009).

 

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Kewming, S.; Mitchell, E.K.; D'Amore, A. Evaluation and comparison of the Diabetes Conversation Maps^® and the Central Gippsland Health Service five-week diabetes group program. Poster presented at International Diabetes Federation (IDF) World Diabetes Congress: December 2–6, 2013; Melbourne, Australia, P-1553.

 

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