Educators at Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC) have collaborated with Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership to adapt the DESMOND diabetes self-management education programme for the D/deaf population.
Established in 2003, DESMOND is a range of group-based and digital self-management programmes grounded in evidence and developed by LDC for people with or at risk of Type 2 diabetes, and other long-term conditions.
The SignHealth report (2014) showed that BSL users had worse health outcomes than the general population. 56 per cent of people with known diabetes had high fasting blood sugar levels, suggesting that their diabetes was not being properly controlled.
The aim of the collaboration with Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership was to identify what adaptations are needed to deliver the DESMOND programme for the D/deaf community to help them become more confident in the management of their condition. Two toolkits have been developed to support future rollout of DESMOND groups for the D/deaf community with Type 2 diabetes around the UK and Ireland.
www.leicesterdiabetescentre.org.uk
