The primary aims of the grant is to design a group-based, culturally appropriate self-management skills training intervention for disadvantaged African-Americans with both diabetes and hypertension and to compile an intervention Manual of Operations (MOO). Once obtained, to then recruit and train peer leaders to deliver the self-management skills training intervention. The outcome hoped to receive, is to discover whether the addition of a culturally sensitive, peer-led self-management skills training intervention, added to standard diabetes education, can achieve an improvement in self-efficacy at adherence. In the same line of reasoning, to also determine if the addition of the intervention, to the standard diabetes education, can achieve a greater improvement in adherence to relevant risk factor recommendations than that achieved by standard diabetes education alone. based, culturally appropriate self-management skills training intervention for disadvantaged African-Americans with both diabetes and hypertension and to compile an intervention Manual of Operations MOO.
Principal Investigator:
Cheryl Rucker-Whitaker, MD
