FP7 Health - Diabetes Literacy (2012-2015)
COLLABORATIVE PROJECT
Enhancing the (cost-)effectiveness of diabetes self-management education:
A comparative assessment of different educational approaches and conditions
for successful implementation
The DIABETES LITERACY project aims to investigate critical success factors of diabetes self management, in order to make suggestions to increase the effectiveness of self-management education as part of a comprehensive diabetes strategy at EU level. To that effect the project will:
Perform a systematic and comparative content analysis of the national diabetes strategies and frameworks across the EU Member States
Assess and compare the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of individual and group education, IT based education, and self-help approaches to diabetes self-management education; Assess the implementation fidelity of current diabetes self-management education programs; Consider the moderating role of health literacy in self-management education for diabetic patients
Develop and pilot test literacy-appropriate diabetes self-management education materials; Assess the conditions for effectiveness of diabetes self-management education programs in the way the health services are organised.
The project will be carried out by a consortium of 8 high-level academic and research institutions based in Europe, the USA and Israel, under the coordination of the UC Louvain.
Stephan Van den Broucke
PARTNERS : Université catholique de Louvain, coordinator, University of Southampton, Universiteit Maastricht, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschafts GMBH, Technische Universitaet Dresden, The regents of the University of California, University College Dublin, CLALIT Health Services - Israel.