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Research Conducted at S.A. Brown and Co-Authors Has Provided New Information about Diabetes

Published in Diabetes Week, June 27th, 2011

2011 JUN 27 -- According to a study from Austin, United States, "Culturally tailored diabetes self-management education (DSME) improves glycemic control and other health outcomes in Mexican Americans but sociocultural barriers to health improvements remain. This study explored the feasibility of adding a nurse case manager (NCM) to DSME to foster DSME attendance and increase utilization of other available health care services."

"Setting and Participants: The setting was a rural community on the Texas-Mexico border in one of the poorest counties in the United States. Using a repeated measures pretest, post-test control group design, we enrolled 165 Mexican...

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