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| 2012-01-25 | IDF Summary | Promotion Tool | On December 4, 2011 more than 15,100 people from over 172 countries congregated in Dubai for the World’s Diabetes Congress. Hosted by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the five day event included presentations from 1,500 speakers. Among them were our colleagues from the Peers for Progress network. This document provides a summary of their individual topics as well as links to their full presentations. |
| 2012-01-25 | Integrating peers and professionals in a successful program | Evidence | In this symposium, Fisher discusses the role of peer support in promoting diabetes self management and introduces the four key functions of peer support identified by Peers for Progress as a template for organizing peer support activities. Evidence for this approach is presented through a description of peer support programs around the world that have utilized the four key functions, which provide flexibility for contextual factors and have resulted in a rich variety of models for peer support. |
| 2012-01-25 | Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Peer Leaders | Example Program | Tang discusses the potential role of peer support in Diabetes Self Management Support (DSMS) and shares the results of a study aimed at testing the feasibility of training peer leaders to deliver support in this capacity. The study selected, trained, and evaluated nine African American peer leaders in pre-established competencies. |
| 2012-01-24 | Peer and other community support to address unmet needs | Evidence | Heisler discusses the role of peer supporters and community health workers (CHWs) in enhancing diabetes self management by sharing evidence of its success across a variety of settings. Additionally, Heisler shares a number of modalities for delivering peer support, including the use of inexpensive technologies. |
| 2012-01-24 | Evolution and innovation in chronic care | Evidence | Oldenburg discusses the emerging role of information and communication technology (ICT) in ongoing follow up and support for peer support programs in chronic disease management. Evidence for the use of ICT is presented through a series of trials that have utilized ICT across a variety of settings. |
| 2012-01-24 | A peer support intervention for rural Ugandan adults | Example Program | Bauman introduces an innovative model of peer support in rural Uganda in which providers, peer “champions”, and their partners were provided with cell phones with a closed network to facilitate communication among the three groups. Results of a four month pilot study to test the feasibility of the program to improve diabetes self management, metabolic control, perceptions of social and emotional support, and linkages to care are presented. |
| 2012-01-24 | Action research on peer educator networks in Cambodia | Evidence | In Cambodia and other developing nations, there is a need for low cost, evidence based interventions for chronic diseases. Peer educator networks are one such intervention on which information is currently lacking. Van Pelt shares his experience gathering internal data on one of the first peer educator networks in Cambodia and discusses his findings, which indicate that the program did effectively deliver care to its participants at an affordable cost. |
| 2012-01-24 | Peer education in China | Example Program | To address the need for culturally relevant peer support programs in China, Sun introduces an innovative hospital based peer support program designed specifically for a Chinese audience. In a pilot study of the peer support intervention, peer leaders were selected from a diabetes self management education center and trained using an adapted version of the peer training curriculum provided by Peers for Progress. Sun shares the results and implications of this trial study in his presentation. |
| 2011-10-26 | Sample Peer Support Papers Identified during 2011 | Evidence | Full citation list of peer support papers identified by Peers for Progress during 2011. Most of the articles are published during 2011. This is the version of October,2011. |
| 2011-10-25 | 2011 Peers for Progress Summer Meetings Highlights- China | Other | This report provides highlights of key activities and resolutions that resulted from a series of Peers for Progress-related networking activities to promote peer support in China during the summer of 2011. It also includes links to presentations on various programs and lessons learned during the 2011 International Symposium on Diabetes Education and Management meetings in Nanjing, China. |
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