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Thirty-Six–Item Short-Form Outcomes Following a Randomized Controlled Trial in Type 2 Diabetes

¹ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
² Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
³ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Felicia Hill-Briggs, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 2024 E. Monument St., Suite 2-600, Baltimore, MD 21205. E-mail: fbriggsh@jhmi.edu

Abbreviations: CHW, community health worker • HRQOL, health-related quality of life • NCM, nurse case manager • RCT, randomized controlled trial • SF-36, 36-item short form

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	INTRODUCTION

 
The goals of clinical interventions in diabetes are to improve not only medical outcomes but health status and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) as well. The Medical Outcomes Study 36-item short form (SF-36) (1) remains the most widely used measure of HRQOL in medical research. We report on change in HRQOL, as assessed using the SF-36, following a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes, a population overrepresented in diabetes prevalence and adverse diabetes outcomes but with relatively little HRQOL research.

	RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

 
Between 1995 and 2000, we conducted a four-arm RCT (2) of the effects of nurse case manager (NCM) and community health worker (CHW) interventions on risk factors for diabetes-related complications in a sample of 186 African Americans with type 2 diabetes in east Baltimore, Maryland. The 2-year trial compared usual care with NCM, CHW, and combined NCM and CHW interventions. The interventions targeted traditional aspects of diabetes care along with socioeconomic factors and home environment. SF-36 was administered at baseline (3) and 2-year follow-up.

	RESULTS

 
One hundred forty-nine persons (84%) completed the 2-year follow-up visit. Pearsons ² analyses and two-sample t tests revealed no differences between participants who . . . [Full Text of this Article]

	CONCLUSIONS

 

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