A brief, regular, proactive telephone “coaching” intervention for diabetes: rationale, description, and preliminary results
W Sacco, AD Morrison, JI Malone Journal of diabetes and its complications 2004
Telephone-delivered interventions (TDIs) represent a potentially cost-effective method to increase medical adherence. TDIs for diabetes patients have typically been delivered by nurses or computerized telephone messaging. Psychology undergraduates, however, are less costly than nurses, have a strong background in behavioral science, and p...