A Diabetes Prevention Program-derived print/telephone lifestyle intervention of 13 telephonic sessions tailored to pregnant/postpartum women was developed.
Theme 2 comprised extending invitations and had six subcategories: (1) word of mouth, (2) card invites, (3) woman's health passport book invites, (4) telephonic invites, (5) use of influential people, and (6) home visits.
Stimuli were delivered using audiometric headphones (TDH 49, Telephonics Corp., Farmingdale, USA).
Other channels via which participants would prefer to receive more information are the internet (48.0%), specialists (37.6%), leaflets (22.5%), TV (12.4%), newspapers (7.7%), friends (6.0%), a telephonic help-desk (5.3%), magazines (4.9%), radio (2.4%) and books (2.2%).
Half of the interventions were in-person group-based workshops [ 31, 33, 34, 36, 38] (n = 5); the remaining interventions were in person one-on-one sessions [ 35, 39] (n = 2), internet-based modalities [ 32, 37] (n = 2), and personal telephonic coaching [ 40] (n = 1).
Medical directors for the participating POs were contacted to schedule an 84-question telephonic survey.
The telephonic intervention group received up to 10 telephone calls from a health educator, one call every 4 6 weeks, in addition to the same print diabetes self-management education materials that were sent to the print (active control) group.
Consult at rheumatologist (13 minutes) €66.900 Consult at rheumatology nurse (20 minutes) €66.900 Telephonic consult at rheumatologist (5 minutes) € 25.73 Hospital day care related to biologics € 122.13 Hospital admission (one day) €454.699 An unrestricted educational grant was provided by Abbott, The Netherlands, which was used to support MV.
All assessments were done in person, except for the 3-month assessment (T4) which was telephonic.
The eligible A1C was ≥7.5%, which is above the usual management goal of <7% (3), but would provide a margin for lowering the A1C in a telephonic intervention with no in-person contact without raising safety concerns.
