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National Diabetes Education Program
Spotlight On Partner Activities
The National Alliance for Hispanic Health produces a culturally-proficient bilingual diabetes curriculum with NDEP consumer diabetes products for Hispanic communities
Introduction
The National Alliance for
Hispanic Health* (the Alliance) is the oldest and largest network of
health and human service providers serving Hispanics. Their members, who
are comprised of community-based organizations, provider organizations,
government, national organizations, universities and for-profit
corporations, provide services to more than 14 million Hispanic health
consumers throughout the United States. Dedicated to community-based solutions,
they launched the Juntos Contra la Diabetes (JCD) (United Against
Diabetes) program to
- reduce the burden of diabetes in Hispanic communities;
- develop educational tools for consumers and providers; and
- develop and implement educational media campaigns.
Along with the JCD community partners, Chicago Hispanic Health
Coalition (Illinois), Concilio Latino de Salud (Arizona); Little Havana
Activities and Nutrition Centers (Miami), Multicultural Area Health
Education Center (Los Angeles) and the Puerto Rican Family Institute
(New York) produced the JCD Living with Diabetes/Viviendo con la
diabetes curriculum, a culturally-proficient bilingual diabetes
self-management curriculum for providers to use with Hispanic consumers
at the local level.
Within this new diabetes curriculum, the Alliance wanted to include a
list of the most effective existing stand-alone consumer diabetes
products for Hispanics. While they had been using NDEP products for some
time with their activities, the Alliance needed to find a way to come to
a consensus on the best products currently available. Ideally, the
selected products would be based on recommendations from diabetes health
care providers and consumers who represented a variety of Hispanic
subgroups and geographic regions around the United States.
To create this list of reviewed and recommended diabetes products, the
Alliance created a Diabetes Products Review Panel consisting of seven
Hispanic diabetes health professionals working with Hispanic consumers from
around the country, as well as representatives from the five JCD community
partners. This panel included diabetes professionals and consumers from
Miami, FL, Los Angeles, CA, Detroit, MI, San Antonio, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Las
Cruces, NM, Chicago, IL, and San Juan, PR.
The Alliance provided the review panel with a group of more
than 20 existing government and non-government products to consider. These consumer
products covered a variety of diabetes prevention, diabetes management and
diabetes complication topics. Panel reviewers rated the level of
appropriateness of each material based on the following criteria: language
level; cultural and linguistic proficiency; balance of graphics versus text;
presence of additional resources; quality and presence of guidance for
action; aesthetic appearance; representation of Hispanics in photos/images;
and degree of commercialism. Reviewers ranked each material within a range
from extremely appropriate to extremely inappropriate.
Of the 12 products that were rated the highest and eventually
included in the final list of recommended products, eight were from NDEP.
Most products included on the final list received an average rating of
extremely appropriate. Based on the results of this review, the Alliance
produced a list titled Recommended Consumer Diabetes Products. This
document is included with every copy of the Living with Diabetes/Viviendo
con la diabetes curriculum
provided to consumers in the curriculum. This list includes a short
description and ordering information for each item.
For more information, contact Paul Baker, project director, at (202)
797-4337, by e-mail
pbaker@hispanichealth.org, or by fax: (202) 797-4353. Or send a written
request to The National Alliance for Hispanic Health, Attention: Paul Baker,
1501 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, DC 20036.
Would you like to identify the best products for your audience? See
below for general “how-to” instructions.
- Existing, stand-alone diabetes products from organizations that work
in diabetes prevention and management. For example:
- National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
- American Diabetes Association (ADA)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Agency on Aging
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Others
- Have a team on your staff willing to devote time to researching,
collecting documents, and recruiting panelists.
- Time Required: 6–12 months of planning.
- Determine the target audience you are trying to reach with diabetes
products (e.g., different racial and ethnic groups, seniors, children).
- Collect existing diabetes products for your target audience from as
many organizations that work in diabetes prevention and management as
possible.
- Select the most appropriate products from all you have collected to
send to the review panel (ideally no more than twenty).
- Contact providers and consumers that belong to or serve the target
audience to determine their interest in serving as review panelists.
- Determine whether you will be able to provide an honorarium for the
panelists for their work.
- Formalize the review panelists’ commitment to participate in the
review with a formalized letter of agreement.
- Obtain enough copies of each diabetes resource so that you are able
to send every review panelist a copy.
- Create an evaluation form for each resource under review, including
a rating scale and room to include comments.
- Be sure to give your panelists at least 30 days for review, clear
review instructions, and your preferred method to receive the completed
evaluation forms.
- Has this been done before? Is there a justified need to improve what
has been done before? How can we improve or expand what has already
taken place?
- Who is your target audience?
- To whom are you sending this list of resources?
- Decide how many of the highest-ranked products you want to include
in your list of recommended products.
- Average the scores for each of the products using the completed
material evaluation forms to determine the most highly rated products.
- Develop your list of products, and be sure to include a short
description and ordering information for each.
- Print your list and distribute to community-based organizations,
health clinics, and other interested partners and agencies.
- Create a summary of details on how you created this resource and
include it to the distribution of your partners.
* Links to non-Federal organizations are provided solely as a service
to our users. Links do not constitute an endorsement of any organization
by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC
is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web
pages found at this link.
Page last reviewed: September 5, 2007
Page last modified: November 9, 2007
Content Source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Division of Diabetes Translation
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