Tomando Control: a culturally appropriate diabetes education program for Spanish-speaking individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus--evaluation of a pilot project.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to pilot test the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of a culturally appropriate and culturally relevant Spanish-language cognitive-behavioral diabetes self-care educational intervention for Hispanic Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Methods: The study site was an urban community health center in the Northeast, at which 16 Latino patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were recruited. This was a 1-group pretest-posttest pilot study, during which qualitative and quantitative data were collected on demographic, physiologic (HbA1c, body mass index, lipids), psychosocial (diabetes-related distress and health beliefs), knowledge, and language-based acculturation variables at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months.