Diabetes Self-Management Education: Miles to Go

Table 5

Mean Outcome A1c levels for control and intervention groups, by type of professional who delivered intervention.

				Control		Intervention
Who delivered intervention	N	No. of studies	No. of tests	A1c		A1c		Percent difference	t-value	Mean weighted d
				M	SD	M	SD
Nurse only	2,996	9	10	8.18	1.39	7.58	1.34	7.24%	2.32*	0.17
Nurse in combination with others	3,275	14	21	8.38	1.17	7.67	1.01	8.54%	2.01*	0.59
No nurse	7,536	29	43	8.08	1.57	7.59	1.5	6.07%	2.32*	0.34

Note. ^∗𝑃 < 0.05.