Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 750 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Prev Chronic Dis. 2013;10:E12. doi: 10.5888/pcd10.120149.
To address the growing incidence of type 2 diabetes in the United States, UnitedHealth Group, the YMCA of the USA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have partnered to bring a group-based adaptation of the Diabetes Prevention Program lifestyle intervention to a national scale. Researchers at Northwestern and Indiana universities are collaborating with these partners to design a robust evaluation of the reach, effectiveness, and costs of this natural experiment. We will employ a quasi-experimental, cluster-randomized study design and combine administrative, clinical, and programmatic data from existing sources to derive reliable, timely, and policy-relevant estimates of the program's impact and potential for sustainability. In this context, evaluation results will provide information about the unique role of a health care-community partnership to prevent type 2 diabetes.
为应对美国 2 型糖尿病发病率的不断上升，联合健康集团、美国基督教青年会和疾病控制与预防中心合作，将基于群体的糖尿病预防计划生活方式干预措施推广到全国范围。西北大学和印第安纳大学的研究人员正在与这些合作伙伴合作，对这一自然实验的覆盖范围、效果和成本进行全面评估。我们将采用准实验、群组随机设计，并结合现有来源的管理、临床和项目数据，得出该计划的影响和可持续性潜力的可靠、及时和与政策相关的估计。在这种情况下，评估结果将提供有关医疗保健-社区伙伴关系在预防 2 型糖尿病方面的独特作用的信息。
