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dbaza Participates at American Diabetes Association's 63rd Scientific Sessions

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SERGEY V. SIROTININ, M.Sc.
President & CEO

Phone: 412-681-1180
Email: ssirotinin@dbaza.com
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PITTSBURGH – The American Diabetes Association (ADA) published an abstract from dbaza for its 63rd Annual Scientific Sessions, June 13-17 in New Orleans.

It appears in Supplement 1 of the journal Diabetes.

The abstract presents research designed to test the effectiveness of dbaza’s Diabetes Education for Kids CD-ROM. The CD-ROM provides basic diabetes education and teaches self-management skills to children with diabetes, their parents, siblings and other family members.

“So far the results from our research have been very encouraging,” said Joelle Escoffery, Ph.D., dbaza senior research coordinator. “They suggest that even children who have received previous self-management education can still benefit from using the CD-ROM.”

The data were collected during a study of 83 children at Camp Crestfield, an ADA camp in western Pennsylvania. Participants ranged from 8 to 11 years of age, of which 42 percent were male and, on average, had had diabetes for four years.

Participants were administered a pre-test of diabetes knowledge, and then used a 20 minute segment of the CD-ROM. An immediate post-test showed a significant increase in diabetes knowledge, which was still present when a second post-test was administered an average of 17 days later.

“These results lead to three important conclusions,” said Sergey Sirotinin, M.Sc., dbaza’s president and CEO. “First, although these children have been living with diabetes for several years, they were still able to learn about diabetes and its management. Second, the significant gain in diabetes knowledge was detected with a 20-minute-segment, rather than the whole program, suggesting that using the CD-ROM in its entirety will further increase diabetes knowledge. And third, although all of the children had received traditional diabetes education, CD-ROM use was still able to improve on that.”

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