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September 17, 2025Iranian Journal of Public HealthOpen Access

Lay Health Worker Led Diabetes Task-Sharing Intervention in Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Meta-analysis demonstrates the effectiveness of task-sharing interventions in diabetes management for adults, suggesting positive outcomes in glycaemic control and blood pressure.

Key Points

  • Task-sharing interventions significantly lowered HbA1c levels by -0.17%, indicating improvement in diabetes management.
  • The meta-analysis included 13 randomised controlled trials with a total of 8183 patients, highlighting broad evidence support.
  • Random-effects modeling was employed due to high study heterogeneity, ensuring robust analysis of diabetes outcomes.
  • Findings support the potential of lay health workers to positively impact diabetes care in resource-limited settings.

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Kangtai Zheng (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d4604031b076d99fa5f2edhttps://doi.org/10.18502/ijph.v54i8.19567
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