LIFE! DIABETES PREVENTION PROGRAM: A RANDOMISED CLUSTER CONTROL TRIAL OF ITS EFFICACY AND COST EFFECTIVENESS

Grant number: 533819 | Funding period: 2009 - 2011

Completed

Abstract

Type 2 diabetes is a great and growing epidemic, and Australia's largest public health challenge. Life! is a diabetes prevention program for 25,000 Victorians. This proposal will look at its efficacy, effectiveness and cost effectiveness so that more improvements can be made.

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Challenges of diabetes prevention in the real world: results and lessons from the Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study

James A Dunbar, Andrea L Hernan, Edward D Janus, Erkki Vartiainen, Tiina Laatikainen, Vincent L Versace, John Reynolds, James D Best, Timothy C Skinner, Sharleen L O'Reilly, Kevin P Mc Namara, Elizabeth Stewart, Michael Coates, Catherine M Bennett, Rob Carter

2015-01-01

OBJECTIVE: To assess effectiveness and implementability of the public health programme Life! Taking action on diabetes in Australi..

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The Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study (MDPS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Nathalie Davis-Lameloise, Andrea Hernan, Edward D Janus, Elizabeth Stewart, Rob Carter, Catherine M Bennett, Sharleen O'Reilly, Benjamin Philpot, Erkki Vartiainen, James A Dunbar

2013-01-31

BACKGROUND: Worldwide, type 2 diabetes (T2DM) prevalence has more than doubled over two decades. In Australia, diabetes is the sec..

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Implementation salvage experiences from the Melbourne diabetes prevention study

James Dunbar, Andrea Hernan, Edward Janus, Nathalie Davis-Lameloise, Dino Asproloupos, Sharleen O'Reilly, Amy Timoshanko, Elizabeth Stewart, Catherine M Bennett, Greg Johnson, Rob Carter

2012-09-19

BACKGROUND: Many public health interventions based on apparently sound evidence from randomised controlled trials encounter diffic..

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Scaling-up from an implementation trial to state-wide coverage: results from the preliminary Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study

Edward D Janus, James D Best, Nathalie Davis-Lameloise, Benjamin Philpot, Andrea Hernan, Catherine M Bennett, Sharleen O'Reilly, Rob Carter, Erkki Vartiainen, James A Dunbar

2012-08-28

BACKGROUND: The successful Greater Green Triangle Diabetes Prevention Program (GGT DPP), a small implementation trial, has been sc..

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