Design of an e-Learning Program for Type 2 Diabetes Latino Patients in a Rural Area of Indiana, US

Abstract Background: It is important to address diabetes in order to decrease the negative impact on quality of life and prevent economic and health consequences; additionally, there is an increasing interest and activities on eHealth to provide education about diabetes. Latino population has one of...

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Autores:
Sarmiento Hernández, Carlos Andrés
Tipo de recurso:
Trabajo de grado de pregrado
Fecha de publicación:
2015
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/57177
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/57177
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/53339/
Palabra clave:
3 Ciencias sociales / Social sciences
37 Educación / Education
61 Ciencias médicas; Medicina / Medicine and health
e-learning
e-health
Community Health
Community Health
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:Abstract Background: It is important to address diabetes in order to decrease the negative impact on quality of life and prevent economic and health consequences; additionally, there is an increasing interest and activities on eHealth to provide education about diabetes. Latino population has one of the higher diabetes diagnosis rates in the country and in many cases this population has a poor literacy level. The main question is: is it possible to create new eHealth resources for low literacy type 2 diabetes Latino patients who obtain health care in a Family Health Clinic of Indiana? Objective: To design an e-learning program for type 2 diabetes Latino patients with low literacy level in one family health clinic of Indiana. Methodology: The design is an evaluation of a public health program based on the CDC framework for programs evaluation. Three activities were done: Creation of the e-learning tool, translation of a web portal from one rural clinic and validation with a group of patients. Results: The results are explained through six steps according with the CDC framework: 1) Engage stakeholders 2) Describe the program 3) Focus the Evaluation 4) Gather credible evidence 5) Justify conclusion and 6) Sharing lessons learned. Three were the main results: construction of an e-learning curriculum, analysis of existing resources and results from a pilot study of the e-learning.