Anna Gorczyca
University of Kansas, KS·Public Health & Epidemiology
Type 2 diabetes is about 17% more common in rural America than in cities, yet rural residents have far less access to proven prevention programs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP) is a lifestyle program with 16 weekly core sessions and 6 monthly follow-ups.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
type 2 diabetes
prediabetes
diabetes prevention
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2028
What they work on
- Compare 12-month weight change in rural Kansas adults with prediabetes who receive the National Diabetes Prevention Program from Extension coaches by live group video versus an online health app.
- Compare the share of participants meeting CDC goals of 5% weight loss and 150 minutes of weekly activity, and changes in hemoglobin A1c, between video and app delivery.
- Compare active recruitment through rural health clinic electronic health records with passive recruitment through flyers and media across ten Kansas State Extension sites.
- Assess the cost and cost-effectiveness of video versus app delivery and of active versus passive recruitment of rural participants.
More about the research
It is available in only 2.6% of rural areas, compared with 11.1% of urban areas. Cooperative Extension, a long-standing partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture, land-grant universities and county governments, already reaches rural communities and could fill this gap. However, evidence that it works for delivering the NDPP is missing.
Why it matters
Rural adults with prediabetes often have no nearby diabetes prevention program. If Cooperative Extension staff can deliver the program effectively through video or an app, this approach could expand affordable, sustainable access to type 2 diabetes prevention in rural communities across the U.S. The results could also show health systems which recruitment strategy is worth the cost.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Melanie Warziski Turk
Duquesne University, PA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Identify barriers and facilitators to using the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) through about 15 interviews each with MDPP and NDPP suppliers, MDPP participants, and eligible non-participants, plus CFIR-based surveys of program suppliers.
Carmen Samuel-Hodge
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC·Public Health & Epidemiology
Identify which combination of four family-centered components (session number, in-person vs. online delivery, communication/conflict training, cohesion training) produces the most weight loss at 6 months, using the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST).
Danielle Jake-Schoffman
University of Florida, FL·Public Health & Epidemiology
Refine the FamilyCollab smartwatch app, which supports parent-child goal setting, shared real-time exercise and reflection, through two rounds of usability studies with 12 parent-child pairs.
The school
University of Kansas: 26 labs on PI Pages, $546M a year on research, 351 research doctorates a year.
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