Diabetes Prevention Programs: A Study of Community-Based Approaches

The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the effectiveness of diabetes prevention programs. The researcher conducted interview-based research of eight professionals in the field to ask their opinions about their type 2 diabetes prevention programs and the success and failures associated with them. The participants are professionals who are involved with the design, administration, and/or the delivery of a type 2 diabetes prevention programs in a healthcare setting, a community-based setting, or a school-based setting. Common themes were analyzed after the interviews were transcribed and coded. Results of this study support other research relating to the success of community-based type 2 diabetes prevention programs and confirms the success of healthcare based and school-based programs in their own right. Information obtained from this study may serve as a validation that community-based organizations have higher efficacy and are better suited to disseminate a type 2 diabetes prevention programs on a large national scale