Jill Bruneau, Donna Moralejo, Karen Parsons
Evaluating the effectiveness of the cardiovascular assessment screening program with nurse practitioners and patients: results of a cluster randomised controlled trial
BMC primary care
backdroup rapidly increasing burden diabetes nepal communitybased diabetes management program implemented involving female community health volunteers fchvs government run fchvs program fchvs received intensive oneweek training workshop prevention control management diabetes training program implemented evaluated enhance diabetes knowledge fchvs matched according literacy level range teaching methods applied including desk review active participation lectures presentations discussions role plays demonstration field test evaluation knowledge attained done testing workshop major milestones development training module presented desk review ending stakeholders participation reviewing revising training package qualitative interview transcripts fchvs analyzed thematically 5day training package developed desk review interventions using community health workers chws diabetes management similar settings training module included homebased blood glucose monitoring homebased health education life style counselling delivered participatory learning approach 20 participants mean age 47 years sd 57 overall assessment knowledge diabetes beforeafter training evaluated diabetes knowledge questionnaire dkq showed increases mean score 404 training mean score 633 training paired ttest 111 p 0001 wilcoxon test paired samples z 3930 p 00001 focus group discussions fgds revealed fchvs favorable perception training programs effectiveness fchvs appropriately trained may instrumental providing counseling screening diabetes management communities