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PEER SUPPORT INTERVENTIONS FOR HBA1C OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS WITH DIABETES: A META-ANALYSIS

Khalid Mohammed Alshehri*, Othman Waslallah Althomali, Asim Ali Alzahrani, Omar Ahmed Asiri, Mohammed Obied Altwerqi, Abdulmohsen Abdulaziz Alameen, Mansur Mohammed Abdullah Altwerqi and Amer Mohammed Alnefaie

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Background & Purpose: The Peers have worked in healthcare underneath several titles. Amongst these titles are community health worker, lay heath advisor, educate, patient navigator, promoter, outreach workers, and community health representatives, in addition to many others. The idea isn't always new. Natural helpers, those members of communities to whom friends turn to for support and advice, are a part of cultures and groups worldwide. The us has been documenting the participation of peer medical examiners since the Fifties, even though peer involvement in diabetes care did now not appear within the literature until the mid-Nineteen Eighties. The Aim of this work is to provide cumulative data about peer support interventions for hba1c outcomes of patients with diabetes (DM). Methods: A systematic search was performed of PubMed, Cochrane library Ovid, Scopus & Google scholar to identify Family medicine RCTs, clinical trials, and comparative studies, which studied the outcome of Intervention group versus Control group of DM patients. A meta-analysis was done using fixed and random- effect methods. The main outcome was difference in pooled HbA1c level. Results: A total of 6 studies were identified involving 1693 patients, with 836 patients in Intervention group, and 857 patients in Control group. Regarding main measure, the fixed-effects model of the meta-analysis study showed significant decrease in pooled HbA1c level, in Intervention group compared to Control group (p = 0.016). Conclusion: To conclude, peer support interventions for diabetes overall achieved a statistically significant with major improvement in HbA1c levels.

Keywords: Peer Support, HbA1c, DM.