Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Apr 2003
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialThe D-Net diabetes self-management program: long-term implementation, outcomes, and generalization results.
A prerequisite to translating research findings into practice is information on consistency of implementation, maintenance of results, and generalization of effects. This follow-up report is one of the few experimental studies to provide such information on Internet-based health education. ⋯ The basic D-Net intervention was implemented well and improvements were observed across a variety of patients, interventionists, and clinics. There were, however, difficulties in maintaining usage over time and additions of tailored self-management and peer support components generally did not significantly improve results.