The Feasibility of Health Trainer Improved Patient Self-Management in Patients with Low Health Literacy and Poorly Controlled Diabetes: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial

Table 4

Resource use by group (number of contacts) at 7 months based on complete cases.

	Usual care; Mean (SD)	Lay health trainer; Mean (SD)	Unadjusted difference (95% CI)	value
Inpatient (number of nights	3.12 (8.34)	1.26 (3.40)	−1.86 (−5.35, 1.63)	0.291
A&E attendance	0.54 (1.03)	0.46 (0.86)	−0.08 (−0.60, 0.45)	0.771
Outpatient visits	1.19 (1.86)	0.65 (0.89)	−0.54 (−1.35, 0.27)	0.188
GP at surgery	2.58 (2.16)	1.65 (1.60)	−0.92 (−1.98, 0.13)	0.086
GP at home	0.04 (0.20)	0 (0)	−0.04 (−0.12, 0.04)	0.322
Practice nurse	2.12 (2.10)	1.73 (1.15)	−0.38 (−1.33, 0.56)	0.417

on the assumption that missing values were zeros.