Evaluating the Impact of Year Long, Augmented Diabetes Self Management Support

Evaluating the Impact of Year Long, Augmented Diabetes Self Management Support

Improving diabetes social support is associated with health improvement benefits. This study is a prospective randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of telephone-based diabetes self-management support (DSMS) compared with usual care, which includes diabetes self-management education (DSME), during a 1-year period. It will determine whether this specific model for providing on-going support to people with diabetes will better enable them to maintain the engagement in self-care behaviors, clinical improvements and diabetes-specific knowledge gained during the course of diabetes self-management education.

Diabetes self management support is telephonic and will be provided by health navigators at a central call center

Inclusion Criteria:

• English or Spanish speaking
• Diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus
• HbA1c > 8
• Have not completed a diabetes self management education program in the past year

Exclusion Criteria:

• Current engagement in cancer treatment
• Diagnosis of end-stage renal disease
• Pregnant
• Receiving immunosuppressant therapy following transplant
• Diagnosis of serious mental illness
• Undergoing systemic treatment with prednisone