Diabetes Connect: Developing a Mobile Health Intervention to Link Diabetes Community Health Workers With Primary Care.
Community health worker (CHW) interventions can help improve diabetes self-management and health outcomes. There is limited evidence on how to effectively integrate CHW programs with primary care efforts. Mobile health technology (mHealth) can connect CHWs to members of the health care team and enhance care. We tested a model for the integration of a CHW-delivered mHealth intervention to improve diabetes self-management. Seventy-two African American patients with diabetes were followed using the mHealth tool. This project partnered an academic institution, a safety-net clinic, and African American churches. The integration of mHealth technology into CHW programs was successfully achieved and readily accepted.
Divisions of Preventive Medicine (Dr Cherrington and Ms Agne) and Infectious Diseases (Mr Guzman and Dr Willig), Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Congregations for Public Health Inc, Birmingham, Alabama (Mss Lampkin and Birl); and Cooper Green Mercy Health System, Birmingham, Alabama (Ms Shelton).
Andrea L
AL
Cherrington
April A
AA
Agne
Yolanda
Y
Lampkin
Annie
A
Birl
Tanya C
TC
Shelton
Alfredo
A
Guzman
James H
JH
Willig
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000407:Alabama / Q000453:epidemiology; D003150:Community Health Workers / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000208:ethnology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D010379:Peer Group; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011204:Poverty Areas; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012648:Self Care; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*