Developing a structured education programme for people with diabetes
- Name
- Professor Melanie Davies
- Address
- Diabetes Research
Leicester Royal Infirmary
Leicester - Postcode
- LE1 5WW
- Telephone
- 0116 258 6481
- [email protected]
- Host Institution
- University of Leicester
The research group will develop a structured education programmes for people with diabetes. The group combines clinicians from across primary and secondary care with an established track record and interest in structured education in diabetes in the areas of Type 1, Type 2, black and minority ethnic (BME) groups, adolescents and pre-pregnancy. Our group also includes experts in psychology and social sciences with considerable experience in adapting psychological theories to develop educational frameworks and in the appropriate measurement of relevant psychosocial processes and outcomes with which to inform and evaluate interventions. We have also included a project manager with experience in successful multi-site trials, and a trainer and educator who have written curricula and delivered structured education.
The research group, which includes a person with diabetes, will link with consumer panels drawn from BME populations. Research group members have considerable experience in designing and piloting educational and self-management programmes, designing and running randomised control trials using the MRC framework for complex interventions, training and supporting educators, and quality assurance of educator training and programme delivery.
Our research questions are broad and include:
- Integration of ongoing structured education into routine care;
- Education for pre-conception;
- Developing a generalisable quality assurance framework.
Membership
- Professor Melanie Davies - Professor of Diabetes Medicine, University of Leicester
- Dr Marian Carey - National Programme Director for the DESMOND programme
- Heather Daly - Nurse Consultant at the University Hospitals of Leicester
- Dr Yvonne Doherty - Clinical Psychologist specialising in diabetes
- Mrs Barbara Elster - Patient Representative
- Dr Charles Fox - Consultant Physician, Northampton General Hospital
- Professor Simon Heller - Professor of Clinical Diabetes at the University of Sheffield
- Dr Kamlesh Khunti -General Practitioner and Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester
- Dr Helen Murphy - Senior Research Fellow, Ipswich NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia