Gabriel Frietze
University of Texas at El Paso, TX·Public Health & Epidemiology
Type 2 diabetes is among the leading causes of death in U.S. adults.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Psychology
- Topics
type 2 diabetes
diabetes self-management education
digital health intervention
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Mar 2030
What they work on
- Identify barriers to and facilitators of joining diabetes self-management programs among Mexican-origin Hispanic adults with type 2 diabetes and their healthcare providers, to guide the design of an online intervention.
- Adapt the bilingual, in-person On the Road to Living Well with Diabetes (OTR) program, led by community health workers, into an online digital health intervention, drawing on what patients and providers report.
- Test in a three-group randomized study whether the online OTR program matches the in-person program, and beats a control, at improving diabetes knowledge, self-efficacy, diabetes stress and HbA1c (average blood sugar).
More about the research
Hispanic Americans carry an outsized share of the burden: they are more likely to develop the disease, and to develop it younger, and they have higher rates of diabetes-related kidney failure and vision loss than non-Hispanic whites. Diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) programs teach patients to manage their own disease, and they lower the risk of complications, hospital stays and death. Yet few patients use them, partly because in-person sessions are inconvenient or hard to reach.
Why it matters
If the online version proves as effective as in-person classes, it could be shared widely with Mexican-origin Hispanic adults with type 2 diabetes. That includes rural and home-bound people who cannot easily attend sessions. Wider access to diabetes self-management education could improve patients' ability to manage their disease and may reduce complications and hospitalizations in a population at high risk of kidney failure and vision loss.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Sheldon Riklon
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, AR·Public Health & Epidemiology
Test whether Ājjmuurur Baamḷe, a family-model diabetes self-management program, improves HbA1c, blood pressure, lipids, BMI, and self-efficacy among Marshallese patients, in a cluster randomized trial delivered by community health workers in faith-based organizations.
Jennifer Campbell
University at Buffalo, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Test the preliminary efficacy of a diabetes-tailored conditional cash transfer, tied to biweekly nurse-led virtual education and stress-coping sessions, versus unconditional cash on blood sugar control and quality of life in a randomized trial.
Aprill Dawson
Medical College of Wisconsin, WI·Medicine & Clinical Research
Determine whether a health educator-led smart speaker program is feasible and acceptable for adults aged 50 and older with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes (HbA1c ≥8%), measuring recruitment, retention and interview feedback.
The school
University of Texas at El Paso: 4 labs on PI Pages, $158M a year on research, 130 research doctorates a year.
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