Empathy in Action: Sunshine Calls for Life with Diabetes

Improving diabetes management by integrating interventions for depression with supported self-management.

• Program: Empathy in Action: Sunshine Calls for Life with Diabetes
• Population: FQHC clinic patients with limited resources & unmanaged diabetes (A1C>8.0)
• Partners: Lone Star Circle of Care
• Location: Austin, TX
• Question: Can an empathetic telehealth program support those with unmanaged diabetes & help them achieve better A1C control?
• Components: Health callers
• Outcomes: Hemoglobin A1C, Mental Health
• Time Period (first results): 6 months
• Results: Randomized trial in progress; 210 recruited (1/23)