BabySteps

This digital intervention helps support women with a previous diagnosis of gestational diabetes to reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes. 

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CREATE – in development

The IMPACT team are currently developing a structured education programme to improve care and outcomes for people with cardiometabolic disease (including cardiovascular disease and diabetes) in three low-to middle income African countries: Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique. The team are also developing and delivering training for healthcare professionals and community workers, in each of these countries, so they can deliver the programme as part of a research study.

DESMOND 

The Diabetes Education and Self-Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed (DESMOND) Programme was the first education programme developed in response to the Diabetes National Service Framework. 

The DESMOND Programme offers training and quality assurance for healthcare professionals and lay educators to deliver any of the DESMOND modules and toolkits to people in their local communities living with or preventing type 2 diabetes.

DESMOND Newly Diagnosed and Foundation is an award-winning programme which significantly improves health outcomes for those with type 2 diabetes. It has been embedded nationally and internationally and is a programme of choice.

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DESMOND ID – in development

Refining and testing a diabetes education programme called DESMOND-ID, which is suitable for adults with intellectual disabilities and their carers or supporters. The programme, which has been adapted from the original DESMOND NDF programme, will aim to support people to better manage their type 2 diabetes. The programme is delivered over seven weekly sessions, with the first session especially designed for the carers/supporters. Additional booster sessions are also envisaged for ongoing support.

DIAMONDS

The IMPACT team are currently developing and training coaches to deliver their collaborator’s self-management intervention for people with severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes. They are also assessing this programme’s intervention fidelity as part of a large NIHR grant.

For more information about DIAMONDS, please click here.

Healthy Goals

Working with the local professional sports clubs, the IMPACT team have created Healthy Goals, a culturally-relevant, interactive lifestyle educational and physical activity programme, to be delivered within the South Asian community, either face-to-face or virtually. The IMPACT team also provide training and mentoring to others to allow them to deliver this programme.

iCAN

iCAN is a group-based self-management education programme for children and young people who are overweight and have a health condition.

The programme consists of six sessions which can be delivered virtually or face-to-face. iCAN Live Healthily aims to support participants (and their families) to increase their knowledge, skills and confidence to engage in healthy self-management behaviours. Making achievable plans to meet personal goals and opportunities for physical activity are embedded within each session.

This programme is currently being delivered within the new Complications from Excess Weight (CEW) service in Nottingham and Leicester who the IMPACT team are working closely with.

M3 – in development

The aim of M3 is to develop and test a new type of care for people with early onset type 2 diabetes (aged 16-39) to address their clinical, psychosocial and lifestyle needs and risk of multi-morbidity (e.g. obesity, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease). We will train healthcare professionals in this new model of care as well as develop new modules for MyDESMOND specifically for this group. People with early onset type 2 diabetes are heavily involved in the design of this new service and MyDESMOND modules, to help ensure we are meeting this groups specific needs.

MiFoot – in development

Currently in development, MiFoot is a multifactorial complex intervention which aims to reduce Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) events in adults with type 2 diabetes and current/previous Diabetic Foot Ulcer Disease (DFUD).

The intervention will aim to improve CVD risk knowledge, risk factor control, medication optimisation/adherence, and psychosocial outcomes. The IMPACT team envisage the programme having three components: one to one sessions; self-management education group sessions (combined education and exercise); and a digital programme.

MyDESMOND

The MyDESMOND programme is an online version of the award-winning DESMOND self-management diabetes education programme, including educational and behaviour change sessions, health trackers (e.g. blood pressure, symptoms), activity trackers, goal setting features, and social support.

For more information about MyDesmond, please click here.

My Life After Stroke

This programme, currently being tested in a large research study, is delivered as a combination of individual and group sessions. It supports stroke survivors with the psycho-social consequences of their stroke and aims to address current unmet needs surrounding information provision and prevention of further strokes.

SHIFT

Including health assessments, workshops, workplace challenges and a ‘cab workout’, this programme specifically promotes healthy lifestyle behaviours in lorry drivers and is currently being tested in research.

SMART Work and Life

This is a multifaceted intervention that promotes the reduction of sedentary behaviour through organisational, environmental, individual and group-based components. Face-to-face and e-learning training, as well as mentorship, supports champions in delivering this programme. 

For more information about SMART Work and Life, please click here.