The DIALBEST Type 2 diabetes peer counseling intervention: Process evaluation

Abstract

These analyses include 60 participants that have completed the 12 month DIALBEST intervention that includes 17 home‐based peer counseling (PC) educational sessions in the topics of nutrition, diabetes and medication management. There were 930 PC contacts with patients with an average duration of 88 minutes per contact. The majority of sessions focused on nutrition (370) followed by diabetes complications (159). Participants evaluated the diabetes complications and food label sessions as very good/excellent (90%), the diabetes and medication management information as very good/excellent (88%), the portion size sessions as very good/excellent (85%), and the physical activity intervention as very good/excellent (83%). When asked about lifestyle changes, patients reported: eating out less (87%), eating less fast food (83%), planning their meals more (77%), being more physically active, routinely checking their feet (73%), eating lower fat foods and using food labels more (71%), as a result of their participation in DIALBEST. Funded by The Connecticut Center for Eliminating Health Disparities among Latinos (NIH‐NCMHD grant # P20MD001765).Grant Funding Source: Nutrion (ASN)