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)