A group of students from different professional backgrounds that come together to provide care or supportive services to patients, clients, or communities.
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Using a Community-Based Collaborative Care Model as a Platform for Successful Interprofessional Education
Jannette Berkley-Patton (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA), Carole Bowe Thompson (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA), Katherine G. Ervie (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA), Miranda Huffman (Meharry Medical College, USA), and Nia R. Johnson (Saint Louis University, USA)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3066-5.ch009
Abstract
Diabetes is a growing public health epidemic in the U.S. African Americans are particularly at-risk for diabetes with rates twice as high as whites. Health professionals are recommended to encourage their at-risk patients to participate in evidence-based lifestyle change programs, such as CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and support their weight loss efforts. This chapter describes feasibility/outcomes of a community-based collaborative care model used to implement a weekly-group DPP facilitated by interprofessional teams of medical school students with three African American churches (N=72 participants; 93% overweight/obese). At 12-weeks, 30% of participants had lost at least 5 lbs.; among those attending at least nine sessions, 55% achieved at least 3% weight loss. Findings suggest interprofessional student teams can feasibly partner with churches to deliver the DPP and achieve weight-loss outcomes associated with reducing diabetes risk. Future research is needed to determine scalability/costs of using community-based collaborative care student models to address diabetes.