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- A tailored diabetes prevention program designed to create healthy women, healthy communities, and health equity in rural Georgia
Clinical Trial
A tailored diabetes prevention program designed to create healthy women, healthy communities, and health equity in rural Georgia
This project seeks to enhance the implementation of the Diabetes Prevention Program in the following innovative ways: 1.) a focus on socio-ecological needs 2.) addresses the disparities in access to the Diabetes Prevention Program in rural areas and 3.) a multi-level and tailored approach to the DPP. Specific Aim #1 : Develop a tailored 3-month modification of the DPP, guided by a core socio-ecological needs assessment of younger women, ages 18-50, at high risk for developing Type 2 diabetes, living in the Augusta Perinatal Region of GA. Specific Aim #2: Examine the preliminary effectiveness of a tailored 3-month modification of the DPP to meet the specific needs of younger women, ages 18--50, at high risk for developing Type 2 diabetes, living in the Augusta Perinatal Region of GA Hypothesis: The tailored DPP 3 -month modification will produce similar outcomes to the traditional DPP program
Eligibility Criteria
- Inclusion critieria: Non-pregnant women, not planning pregnancy within the next 12 mos. ages 18-50 years at time of screening and enrollment high risk for T2DM (BMI>24, personal history of gestational diabetes, family history of diabetes, personal history of high blood pressure and/or physical inactivity) OR diagnosed with prediabetes living in CSRA Region of GA (i.e. Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington, and Wilkes) or SC (Aiken, Edgefield, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, McCormick and Saluda) will be eligible to participate in the study. Other rcounties of the Augusta Perinatal Region will also be elgible to participate (Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Greene, Emanuel, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Olgethorpe, Screven, Walton) Exclusion critieria: males not meeting age range,18-50 years living outside Augusta GA and SC CSRA region or Augusta Perinatal Region pregnant during intervention period taking fertility medications or planning pregnancy in next 12 months previous diagnosis of Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes limited reading and/or English comprehension