CDIA annual meeting review highlights wide-ranging portfolio of research projects

Presentations from the Medical Research Council’s second Burden of Disease Study illustrated the NCD mortality trends between 1997 and 2010. A systematic review across African studies published between 2000 and 2013 revealed that 14.1% of people 55 years and older was found to have diabetes.
The results of a number of CDIA’s intervention studies illustrated how the wide range of topics addressed could contribute to improve the quality of care for patients with chronic diseases. These included the implementation of ‘Primary Care 101’, the impact of using mobile telephone messaging on the control of hypertension in a disadvantaged community and the value of training for nurses and family medicine clinicians in brief behaviour change counselling to strengthen their interactions with patients.
The value of the CDIA research network’s contribution was well illustrated at this meeting.