An educator visited members to discuss good health practices, physical activity and handling medications.
In the final session, the group of women accompanied by the peer educator visited a midwifery practice in the neighbourhood.
There are no standard recommendations for the number of educator visits or requisite contact hours for optimal diabetes management.
In Indonesia, the annual number of specialist visits was higher (10.2, SD 7.5) than GP visits (6.2, SD 7.8), while the annual number of diabetes educator visits was 1.4 (SD 2.8) [ 18].
A composite indicator of exposure — ever been exposed to any of the three core program services (contacted by peer educator, visited program STI clinics and received condoms from peers) — was used for this analysis (see Table 1).
Women in the Intervention Group made 0.7 fewer antenatal clinic visits (p = 0.0002), but 2.5 more specialist medical clinic visits (p < 0.0001), 1.56 more dietician visits (p < 0.0001), 1.79 more diabetes educator visits (p < 0.0001), and received insulin therapy more often (adjusted RR 6.18, 95%CI 3.69 to 10.35, p < 0.0001) than women in the Routine-Care Group (Table 2).
The number of medical and diabetes educator visits was available for the year before and year after referral to The Maestro Project for 101 of 164 patients (62%) in the older group and 64 of 84 patients (76%) in the younger group.
Each year, about 3,000 educators visit the town.
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Educators visit the women twice a week over the four months it takes to complete the course and achieve basic literacy and numeracy.
Outreach workers, assisted by peer educators, visit CSWs regularly to distribute condoms, promote safer sex practices and encourage CSWs to attend the free STI clinic.
