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Present	MD, Baystate Health
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Medicine and Health Sciences

Baystate Brightwood Health Center/Centro de Salud

380 Plainfield Street

Springfield, MA 01107

Randomized trial of a literacy-sensitive, culturally tailored diabetes self-management intervention for low-income latinos: latinos en control (Milagros C. Rosal, Ira S. Ockene, Angela Restrepo, et al.) Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Publications (2011)

OBJECTIVE: To test whether a theory-based, literacy, and culturally tailored self-management intervention, Latinos en Control, improves glycemic control among low-income Latinos with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A total of 252 patients recruited ...

Translational Research at Community Health Centers: Challenges and Successes in Recruiting and Retaining Low-Income Latino Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Into a Randomized Clinical Trial (Milagros C. Rosal, Mary Jo White, Amy Borg, et al.) Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Publications (2010)

PURPOSE: To describe methods used to recruit and retain low-income Latinos in a randomized clinical trial (RCT) of a diabetes self-management intervention at 5 community health centers (CHCs) in Massachusetts. METHODS: Consent from primary care ...

Design and methods for a randomized clinical trial of a diabetes self-management intervention for low-income Latinos: Latinos en Control (Milagros C. Rosal, Mary Jo White, Angela Restrepo, et al.) Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Publications (2009)

BACKGROUND: US Latinos have greater prevalence of type 2 diabetes (diabetes), uncontrolled diabetes and diabetes co-morbidities compared to non-Latino Whites. They also have lower literacy levels and are more likely to live in poverty. Interventions ...

Diabetes self-management among low-income Spanish-speaking patients: a pilot study (Milagros C. Rosal, Barbara C. Olendzki, George W. Reed, et al.) Cardiovascular Medicine Publications (2005)

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes and diabetes-related morbidity and mortality is higher among low-income Hispanics when compared to that of Whites. However, little is known about how to effectively promote self-management in this ...

Self-management of type 2 diabetes: a survey of low-income urban Puerto Ricans (Dorothea S. von Goeler, Milagros C. Rosal, Judith K. Ockene, et al.) Women’s Health Research Faculty Publications (2003)

PURPOSE: This study explored self-reported barriers to diabetes self-management in a population of urban, low-income Puerto Rican individuals. METHODS: A cross-sectional exploratory survey was conducted with 30 Puerto Rican adults with type 2 diabetes. Participants ...