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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2011 Jan 1;8(Winter):1b.

A patient-centric, provider-assisted diabetes telehealth self-management intervention for urban minorities

Ernest L Carter  1 , Gail Nunlee-Bland, Clive Callender
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Randomized Controlled Trial

A patient-centric, provider-assisted diabetes telehealth self-management intervention for urban minorities

Ernest L Carter et al. Perspect Health Inf Manag. .

Abstract

This article describes the design and implementation of an online diabetes self-management intervention for a sample of inner-city African Americans with diabetes. Study participants were randomly assigned to the treatment (26) and control (21) conditions. The results indicate that treatment group participants were more likely to achieve positive outcomes in terms of lowered hemoglobin A1c and body mass index measurements than were control group members. These findings support the development of telehealth interventions to promote effective chronic disease management in medically underserved communities.

Keywords: diabetes; self-management; telehealth.

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