| Round 1 Grantees |
| Westside Health Services, Inc., New York |
| University of Southern California, California |
| University of California-Irvine, California |
| Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut |
| Olive View-UCLA -DREW, California |
| Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, Rhode Island |
| Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority, Oklahoma |
| Cooper Green Hospital, Alabama |
| Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia |
| Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, Massachusetts |
| Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Massachusetts |
| Round 2 Grantees |
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University of California-Irvine, California
Coached Care for Diabetes: Reducing Disease Burden in Two Ethnic Groups
From left to right—Front Row: Herlinda Guzman, Molan Doan, Alex Phan, Andrew Vu, Evelyn Gonzalez, Odette Chida, Debbie Acuna, Dara Sorkin; Middle Row: Bich Tran, Luz Ornelas, Ignacia Roman, Quyen Ngo-Metzger, Martha Alejo-Reyes, Maiphuong Tran; Back Row: Aaron Llanes, Israel de Alba, Thomas Kemmerly, Leonard Gonzalez, Martina Panzenboeck, Sherrie Kaplan, John Billimek, Kristin August, Dana Mukamel
Not Pictured: Sheldon Greenfield
The Coached Care for Diabetes Program (CCDP) aims to improve care and decrease disparities in Latinos and Asian Americans (primarily Vietnamese) with type 2 diabetes and is being implemented among a diverse ethnic, geographic and economic subset of these populations. The program is novel in its use of community-based "coaches," recruited directly from each target community, and who themselves have type 2 diabetes. CCDP focuses on: 1) providing patients with individualized treatment information; 2) teaching patients skills to negotiate a treatment regimen consistent with their preferences, cultures, and lifestyles; 3) teaching patients skills for diabetes self-management; and 4) preparing patients for a more active role in their care. In addition to patient self-care, CCDP also concentrates on the patient-provider interaction, focusing on problem areas of treatment and lifestyle modification that need to be identified, discussed, and negotiated with the provider. The project has the ability to yield substantial value to the understanding of “Coached Care” principles in the treatment of minority patient populations, regardless of the intervention’s effect, by providing process information on how the targeted populations in this intervention respond to efforts to improve self-care.
Contact:
Quyen Ngo-Metzger, MD, MPH (Qhngo@uci.edu)
Principal Investigator:
Quyen Ngo-Metzger, MD, MPH
Team Members:
Debbie Acuna, Diabetes Coach
Martha Alejo-Reyes, Diabetes Coach
Kristin August, Graduate Student Researcher
John Billimek, Project Director
Odette Chida, Research Assistant
Israel de Alba, Co-Investigator
Molan Doan, Research Assistant
Evelyn Gonzalez, Student Research Assistant
Leonard Gonzalez, Diabetes Coach
Sheldon Greenfield, Co-Investigator
Herlinda Guzman, Project Coordinator
Sherrie Kaplan, Co-Investigator
Thomas Kemmerly, Student Research Assistant
Aaron Llanes, Student Research Assistant
Dana Mukamel, Co-Investigator
Luz Ornelas, Student Research Assistant
Martina Panzenboeck, Research Assistant
Alex Phan, Student Research Assistant
Ignacia Roman, Diabetes Coach
Dara Sorkin, Co-Investigator
Bich Tran, Diabetes Coach
Maiphuong Tran, Research Assistant
Andrew Vu, Student Research Assistant |
