Community Health Workers Assisting Patients With Diabetes in Self-management : The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management

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Community Health Workers Assisting Patients With Diabetes in Self-management

Hargraves, J. Lee PhD; Ferguson, Warren J. MD; Lemay, Celeste A. RN, MPH; Pernice, Joan MS

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Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 35(1):p 15-26, January/March 2012. | DOI: 10.1097/JAC.0b013e31822cbe35

Abstract

Community health workers (CHWs) have gained prominence in health care, recognizing the influence of community and environment on health. This study evaluates CHWs' efforts to assess patients' readiness to change and facilitate self-management goal setting. Six pairs of community health centers were randomly assigned to employ CHWs on health care teams. Each team worked with a defined population of patients. We assessed changes in documented patient self-management goals and clinical measures from both control and intervention CHCs before and after deploying CHWs, finding a significant increase in self-management goal setting between the intervention and control health centers.

© 2012 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

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