Why the study?
Does a coordinated primary care and community health promotion program improve CHD management and awareness in the South Asian community?
Does a coordinated primary care and community health promotion program improve CHD management and awareness in the South Asian community?
A coordinated primary care and community health promotion program successfully drove organizational changes and community engagement for CHD prevention in a South Asian population.
Supports targeted CHD programs in South Asian communities; observational data leave clinical impact and scalability open.
OBJECTIVES: To improve the effectiveness of primary and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) in volunteer Leicestershire general practices with a high percentage of South Asian patients. To increase the awareness of lifestyle risk factors amongst the South Asian community with means of reducing CHD. DESIGN: Development and implementation of: A CHD training and awareness programme for health care professionals. Organizational change to ensure adoption of an effective secondary prevention programme for general practice. A public awareness campaign including a peer education programme for the South Asian community of Leicestershire. Interim evaluation using participation data, user satisfaction and organizational development of primary care is reported. RESULTS: A multi-disciplinary training programme accessed by 88% of staff from 23 volunteer practices has been developed and implemented. Organizational development in practices including CHD registers, action planning and establishing CHD clinics has taken place at a much faster pace than comparable non-Project Dil practices. An externally accredited peer education programme has been completed by 45 community volunteers. Within 6 months of completion, a total of 54 peer education sessions accessed by over 2,000 people from the Asian community had taken place. Project Dil, although initially funded only for 2 years, has now been adopted by Leicestershire Health Services (via a Primary Care Trust) as a mainstream programme. CONCLUSION: Project Dil has made considerable progress in engaging and driving changes in general practices to facilitate improvement in CHD management. In parallel, the project has developed a community education programme, including the use of peer education. The project is now hosted by a Primary Care Trust on behalf of Leicestershire Health Services. External evaluation of the peer education programme has commenced.
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