PMID- 36462290 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221226 LR - 20221228 IS - 1873-5134 (Electronic) IS - 0738-3991 (Linking) VI - 107 DP - 2023 Feb TI - Lower education and immigrant background are associated with lower participation in a diabetes education program - Insights from adult patients in the Outcomes & Multi-morbidity In Type 2 diabetes cohort (OMIT). PG - 107577 LID - S0738-3991(22)00844-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.pec.2022.107577 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVES: Diabetes educational programmes should be offered to patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We assessed the proportion of diabetes educational program participation among adults with T2DM, and its associations with place of residence in Norway, education, and immigrant background. METHODS: We identified 28,128 diagnosed with T2DM (2008-2019) in the Outcomes & Multi-morbidity In Type 2 diabetes cohort. To examine associations between sociodemographic factors and participation in diabetes start courses (yes/no), we computed adjusted risk ratios (95% CI) using log-binomial regression. RESULTS: Overall, 18% participated on the diabetes start course, but partaking differed by Norwegian counties (range:12-34%). Individuals with an immigrant background were 29% less likely to participate (RR 0.71, CI 0.65-0.79). Similarly, those with a lower educational level were 23% less likely to participate (RR 0.77, CI 0.72-0.83) than those with the highest education. The association between education and start course participation was not significant in the subgroup of immigrant individuals (RR 0.88 CI 0.70-1.12). CONCLUSIONS: We found that diabetes start course participation was overall low, especially in individuals with low education and immigrant background. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: More efforts are needed to promote diabetes start courses in patients with T2DM. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Strandberg, Ragnhild B AU - Strandberg RB AD - Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. Electronic address: Ragnhild.Bjarkoy.Strandberg@hvl.no. FAU - Nilsen, Roy M AU - Nilsen RM AD - Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. FAU - Pouwer, Frans AU - Pouwer F AD - Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Steno Diabetes Centre Odense, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark; Department of Medical Psychology, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. FAU - Igland, Jannicke AU - Igland J AD - Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. FAU - Forster, Rachel B AU - Forster RB AD - General Practice Research Unit (AFE), Department of General Practice, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Department of Health Registry Research and Development, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway. FAU - Jenum, Anne Karen AU - Jenum AK AD - General Practice Research Unit (AFE), Department of General Practice, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. FAU - Buhl, Esben S AU - Buhl ES AD - General Practice Research Unit (AFE), Department of General Practice, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. FAU - Iversen, Marjolein M AU - Iversen MM AD - Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20221125 PL - Ireland TA - Patient Educ Couns JT - Patient education and counseling JID - 8406280 MH - Humans MH - Adult MH - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/epidemiology/diagnosis MH - Multimorbidity MH - Educational Status MH - Morbidity MH - *Emigrants and Immigrants OTO - NOTNLM OT - Diabetes self-management education and support OT - Education OT - Migrant background OT - Type 2 diabetes mellitus COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest None declared. EDAT- 2022/12/04 06:00 MHDA- 2022/12/27 06:00 CRDT- 2022/12/03 18:15 PHST- 2022/06/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/11/10 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/11/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/12/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/12/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/12/03 18:15 [entrez] AID - S0738-3991(22)00844-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.pec.2022.107577 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Patient Educ Couns. 2023 Feb;107:107577. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2022.107577. Epub 2022 Nov 25.