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Diabetes Research Programme - DM08
Feel4Diabetes - Developing and implementing a community-based intervention to create a more supportive social and physical environment for lifestyle changes to prevent diabetes in vulnerable families across Europe
Project locations: Athens, Greece; Debrecen, Hungary; Zaragoza, Spain; Ghent, Belgium; Varna and/or Sofia, Bulgaria; Satakunta, Finland
Funding Organisations
Primary research aim
Prevention of type 2 diabetes among families from low and
middle income countries and from vulnerable groups in high income
countries in Europe.
Secondary research aims
Creation of a more supportive social and physical
environment to promote lifestyle and behaviour change among families
from low and middle income countries and from vulnerable groups in high
income countries in Europe.
Research objectives and methodology
The aim of the Feel4Diabetes-project is to develop, implement and evaluate a community-based intervention aiming to create a more supportive social and physical environment to promote lifestyle and behaviour change to prevent type 2 diabetes among families from low and middle income countries and from vulnerable groups in high income countries in Europe. The PRECEDE-PROCEED Model will provide the theoretical framework for the development, implementation and evaluation of the Feel4Diabetes intervention.
Project contact: Yannis Manios - manios@hua.gr
Investigators
- Yannis Manios, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
- Jaana Lindström, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Greet Cardon, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Luis A Moreno Aznar, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
- Violeta Iotova, Medical University - Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
- Imre Rurik, University of Debrecen (Hungary)
- Adany Roza, University of Debrecen (Hungary)
- Peter Schwarz, Dresden University of Technology (Germany)
- Kanstantinos Makrilakis, University of Athens (Greece)
- Sophie Peresson, International Diabetes Federation (Belgium)
- Remberto Martinez, Extensive Life Oy (Finland)
- Lieven Annemans, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Fernando Civeira, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
- Tsvetalina Tankova, Medical University - Varna, Varna, Bulgaria