HB 636: Diabetes Program Objective Report - Needs Assessment at UAB

This report presents a program objective focused on addressing the challenges faced by individuals with diabetes and those providing care. The research aims to gather data on experiences and perceptions related to diabetes management, with a focus on improving health outcomes, quality of life, and self-management skills. The report outlines the key research objectives, including identifying challenges in blood sugar control, assessing participant experiences, evaluating self-management skills, and developing strategies for effective disease management. The long-term objective is to increase awareness of risk factors and improve self-management skills among individuals with type 2 diabetes by 2025. The assessment methodology involves inter-disciplinary collaboration, data gathering through interviews, and consideration of cultural competence to minimize health inequalities. The report emphasizes the importance of needs assessment in understanding the scope, goals, and resources required for effective diabetes research and intervention strategies.

Running head: PROGRAM OBJECTIVE
Program objective
Name of the student:
Name of the University:
Author’s note

1PROGRAM OBJECTIVE
Program objective
The main of the research program is to collect data on experiences and perceptions of
people living with diabetes or those providing care to patients with diabetes. The main
rationale for this being evidence of reports related to poor quality of life in people with
diabetes and impact of poor self management knowledge in contributing to high burden of the
disease condition (Donovan, 2017). The program aims to assess challenges based on unique
context and background of each participant. The objective is to improve health outcomes,
quality of life outcomes, health related behaviour and health related environment outcomes
for diabetes patient. The key research objectives are as follows:
 To identify the challenges and solution to controlling blood sugar level in diabetes
patient (health outcome)
 To assess experience of participants in the management of diabetes (quality of life
outcomes
 To evaluate current self management skills in controlling the disease condition
(health related behaviour outcomes)
 To develop skills to effectively self manage the disease and implement guidelines
engage in healthy behavioural change (health related environmental outcomes)
The long term program objective is defined below:
By 2025, the number of adults affected by type 2 diabetes or newly diagnosed with type 2
diabetes will have awareness regarding risk factors and the diagnosed patients will have skills
in self management of the disease condition and controlling blood sugar level.
Verb Metric Population Object Baseline
measure
Target
measure
Time
frame
Awareness proportion People with Diabetes/blood Blood sugar Improving By 2025

2PROGRAM OBJECTIVE
diabetes and
newly
diagnosed
patient
sugar control control and
self
management
skills
self
management
skills and
knowledge
related to
diabetes
care by 50%

3PROGRAM OBJECTIVE
References:
Donovan, C. (2017). CHALLENGES IN SELF-MANAGEMENT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES
MELLITUS (T2DM) IN A RURAL COMMUNITY OF EASTERN
CANADA. Perspectives, 39(3), 6.