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Most health care for people with diabetes occurs in family practice, yet balancing the time and resources to help these patients can be difficult. An intervention empowering patients, leveraging community resources, and assisting self-management could benefit patients and providers. Thus, the feasibility and potential for effectiveness of “Health Teams Advancing Patient Experience, Strengthening Quality through Health Connectors for Diabetes Management” (Health TAPESTRY-HC-DM) as an approach supporting diabetes self-management was explored to inform development of a future large-scale trial.
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This study of Health TAPESTRY-HC-DM, a complex intervention to help people with diabetes self-management, indicated feasibility and potential clinical benefit. Patient-reported outcome measures showed change in the hypothesized direction, notably with physical activity, which was also seen as a primary goal set by clients. However, we need a greater understanding of who this approach helped the most and more efficient recruitment processes in order to offer it on a larger scale to the most appropriate patient population.
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https://pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40814-019-0504-8