Study Strengths
• Applied a new health behavior change model to diabetes self-care
behaviors
• Developed an intervention for an understudied, high risk group
that was implemented it in a clinic widely accessed by the target
population
• Trained a medical assistant to deliver culturally-tailored content
• Developed new culturally-tailored materials
• Used a “carve out” approach that required limited resources, fit
well within the ecology of the clinic and its procedures, and could
be easily replicated elsewhere
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