title: A community-academic partnership to adapt a curriculum for people with serious mental illnesses and diabetes.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Individuals with serious mental illnesses (SMI) represent a high-risk health disparities population disproportionately affected by diabetes and obesity.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This paper describes a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to adapting a well-known evidence-based behavioral change protocol, the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) lifestyle intervention, for individuals with diabetes and SMI in the community setting.
  
  
  METHODS
  A committee composed of university researchers and representatives from the recovery community modified the DPP following three criteria: Person centeredness, practicality, and empowerment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Major modifications to the DPP were made in light of barriers and challenges faced by individuals with diabetes and SMI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The adaptations made to the DPP, and the process through which the modifications were made, may be used by physicians, mental health practitioners, and health educators to engage individuals confronting self-management of diabetes and mental illness.
authors.affiliation: Primary Car Research Institute, Department of Family Medicine, University at Buffalo State University of New York.
authors.forename: Linda S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Kahn
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Pastore
authors.forename: Elisa M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Rodriguez
authors.forename: Laurene
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tumiel-Berhalter
authors.forename: Maura
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kelley
authors.forename: Donald P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Bartlett
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Saunders
authors.forename: Chester H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Fox
mesh_terms: D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004032:Diet; D015444:Exercise; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016730:Program Development; D012648:Self Care; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*