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Poster - Online Survey of Nurses as role models for healthy eating and being active 2015

Poster describing part two of mixed methods research by Karen Pickering as part of her Public health masters thesis.   The first part was a qualitative look at attitudes, behaviours, barriers and enablers through interviewing carried out with 9 nurses.  This poster covers the results of an online survey of a wider group that further looked into points identified in the interviews.  Among the key findings were that most of the nurses who responded felt that role modelling heal...

Publication - DCSS - Predictive risk model for all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetes

Publication in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice from Tom Robinson, Raina Elley, Tim Kenealy and Paul Drury made use of the DPT run DCSS data collected from Primary Care.  Primary care data was looked at from a large national multi-ethnic cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes in New Zealand and linked mortality records was used in a prospective cohort design to develop a predictive risk model for 5-year risk of mortality. It was then validated using information from a sepa...

Poster - Countdown MasterClass cooking show for schools

Poster that was presented at NZSSD conference in 2015.   It describes the pilot intervention designed to be delivered into 14 low decile secondary schools in the Counties Manukau Health area, and evaluation results from two schools delivered so far.  Support was provided by CMH, Countdown Supermarkets, GS Hall Company Ltd and PickMee Apples...

GDM Registry Project Pilot, the conclusion of our part

Diabetes Projects Trust was delighted to be part of an innovative pilot project with Counties Manukau District Health Board and multiple stakeholders with an interest in Gestational Diabetes (GDM), along with Koray Atalag of The National Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Auckland. The aim was to set up a GDM registry with the capacity to support screening women for type 2 diabetes after pregnancy with GDM, set up prompts/reminders for annual screening, and include informa...

Quality Standards for Diabetes Care a welcome document

Diabetes Projects Trust Clinical Project Manager, Kate Smallman, was privileged to be part of the advisory committee for development of these Quality Standards for Diabetes Care which was led by Dr Helen Snell for the Ministry of Health.   Note that the version  available here has a review date of 2016-2017.   PDF available here.   From the perspective of DPT, our GDM project is used as an example of an innovation on page 229....

Publication - Standards-based development of Clinical Registries, the GDM pilot

Diabetes Projects Trust supported groundbreaking work on a pilot registry for women with Gestational Diabetes.    Koray Atalag, Aleksandar Zivaljevic, Carl Eagleton and Karen Pickering are authors on this paper "A Standards-based Approach to Development of Clinical Registries - Initial Lessons Learnt from the Gestational Diabetes Registry" which went to the 13th Annual Health Informatics NZ (HINZ) conference in Auckland in 2014.  Abstract text is as follows "Gestational diabetes h...

In the News: Pacific Scoop, diabetes in the Pacific

Article by Marcus Bank, journalism student, in the Pacific Scoop.  Talking about diabetes in the Pacific including describing aspects of scale, causes and what is being/can be done. Kate Smallman, Nurse Specialist from DPT talks about aspects of the Lifestyle programme taking a train the trainer approach....

Annual Activity Report 2013-2014

Annual Activity Report covering the April 2013 to March 2014 year.    It was another busy year.  DPT provided support to and worked with Research Fellow Shekhar Seghal who was researching in the area of gestational diabetes (GDM).  The Lifestyle (schools, workplaces, healthy eating on a budget, train the trainers) and primary care based DCSS programmes were busy, and Gardens4Health continued to thrive with 54 linked G4H community gardens.  The high point of this year was...

From our friends at Diabetes NZ

Nice interview with Kate Smallman in an article in the Autumn edition of the Diabetes NZ magazine, profiling our organisation.   It makes a great follow-up to our 21st that was attended by a number of people from Diabetes Auckland, including manager John Denton.https://issuu.com/diabetesnewzealand/docs/diabetes_autumn_2014...

Poster - Healthy Workplace Programme Evaluation 2014 NZSSD

Diabetes Projects Trust Healthy Workplace Programme, which forms part of the MOH funded Lifestyle programme was evaluated as described in this poster taken to the NZSSD conference in 2014.   Results were that the programme was evolving over time, some workplaces experienced changes, senior management and leadership support and motivation was crucial, and the programme was valued by participants who would readily recommend it.     Authors Kate Smallman, Yvonne Williamson,...

Poster NZSSD - Nurses as Role models for Healthy Eating and Being Active

Poster presented at the 2014 NZSSD conference by Karen Pickering with results from the qualitative component of her mixed methods research for her Masters degree in Public Health.   This exploratory study looked at the idea of nurses as role models for healthy lifestyle behaviours, their attitudes, how they applied health related behaviours to themselves, and the barriers and enablers impacting their ability to be role models.    Tim Kenealy supervisor and poster co-author.&n...

Celebrating 21 Amazing Years

Diabetes Projects Trust has celebrated 21 years.   Where to take the actual official starting date from was a bit of a challenge, was it when the first project started, was it this document or that...the decision was eventually taken that 2013 would be THE year!Much time was spent going back through old records, asking current team members who they were still in touch with, trawling social media, and examining names on documents, posters and  presentations in order to identify ind...

Poster - Diabetes Care Support Service - 2013

A poster was created describing the DCSS, Diabetes Care Support Service quality improvement audit being carried out in Primary Care across Auckland.   Prepared by Dr Faye Clark, Helen Hegley, Eileen Howard, Meryl McEnery and Sara Morton.    ...

Publication - Derivation and validation of renal risk score

https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/36/10/3113/30366/Derivation-and-Validation-of-a-Renal-Risk-Score   October 2013, Volume 36, Issue 10, Diabetes Care.   This study by Raina Elley et al used our DCSS primary care database (non-identifiable) as validation for a national dataset with the intention of coming up with risk models to help predict ESRD in people in Primary Care with Type 2 diabetes....

Presentation of funds raised to Christchurch Diabetes Team

Kate and Karen started their quest to raise funds for the team at Christchurch Diabetes service after being affected by hearing about the devastating experiences in the Christchurch earthquake of February 2011.   Finally, two years later, the cheque has been handed over after things taking a bit longer than expected, including having the cancellation of the first Ironman back in 2012 and many other challenges.  Of course, none of the challenges compared remotely to what our c...

Annual Activity Report 2012-2013

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Poster - Health Psychology and Diabetes in Pregnancy at CMDHB

Poster  about health psychology in relation to diabetes in pregnancy at CMDHB.   This is part of a project where health psychologist Heidi Baxter was employed by DPT to work on projects relating to health psychology, particularly in Diabetes In Pregnancy....

Poster - Gestational Diabetes, women's stories - IDF 2013

Exploratory qualitative research where nine women who had had GDM who had attended the CMDHB diabetes in pregnancy clinic in 2011 were interviewed looking at sources of knowledge, what knowledge they had, barriers and enablers for using knowledge.  Thematic analysis was carried out.   This poster of findings was presented at the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) conference in 2013.   ...

Poster New DPT Research - South Auckland Women's Knowledge and behaviours around GDM

This qualitative research has been carried out by DPT team members to look at where women get their information about gestational diabetes (GDM), what that information/ knowledge is made up of, and what barriers and enablers there were to them using it.  Nine women were interviewed and themes were identified from the data collected.   See the summary poster (presented at the NZSSD conference) attached for more detail about the research and findings....

Poster - Development of resource material for behaviour change

Nutritionist Diana Anderson presented this poster  around development of material in 'game' format for the Cook'n Kiwi game.   Poster describes the process and importance of collaboration with colleagues and users....

Annual Activity Report 2011-2012

Diabetes Projects Trust Annual Report for the 2011-2012 year.  Note some formatting issues with this document....

Publication - DCSS - Article on Gout in patients with Diabetes

Letters to the Editor article published in Rheumatology from a collaborative effort utilising DCSS data to look more into gout in people in Auckland with Diabetes or Pre-Diabetes.    The aim of the study was to look at the prevalence and clinical factors among the patients audited as part of the DCSS Quality Improvement Audit across Auckland....

DCSS data used by the CMDHB Māori Gout Action Group

The title of the article is "Gout: An alarm bell for diabetes and cardiovascular disease".    The Māori Gout Action Group (MGAG) looked at myths and the current situation to look at "outing Gout" and bringing management into the current century.   National data was used, as well as data collected using a newly developed set of questions from the DCSS Primary Care audit.   The article is published in the  Best Practice Journal, Issue 37, August 2011. ...

Presentation ADS/ADEA 2011 - GDM in CMDHB and where to from here?

Research Fellow Sasini Wijayaratna was employed by DPT to investigate and report on the situation around Gestational Diabetes in the CMDHB Region. Dr Wijayaratna carried out a review of the available evidence, talked to stakeholders, worked in clinics and with women with Gestational Diabetes and put together a comprehensive report covering prevalence, risk factors, screening, consequences, local management, follow-up, prevention strategies and recommendations. She also carried out a retrospectiv...

Report into GDM in CMDHB - DPT Research Fellow Sasini Wijayaratna

A report into Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in the CMDHB area by Research Fellow Sasini Wijayaratna has been completed.   Dr Wijayaratna has held the fellowship and worked with DPT since 2010.  The title of the finished report is "An overview of diabetes in pregnancy in the Counties Manukau District Health Board Area - June 2011".   This work is part of a wider suite of collaborative initiatives by the DPT which includes a retrospective cohort study, looking at more than...