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Studies A-Z > D > DRN 118
The DESMOND Lay Educator Study
Can Lay Educators deliver structured education programmes as part of a lay educator/health care professional team with the same degree of integrity, quality and efficacy as trained health care professional educators?
The main aim of the study is to test the hypothesis that joint teams of lay educators and health care professionals can deliver structured education in diabetes with the same degree of interaction fidelity, quality and efficacy as health care professional teams. Equivalence of outcomes for patients who have attended sessions delivered by the two categories of team will be used as a proxy for equivalence in terms of delivery of effective education.