Educational strategies to improve health literacy for people with type 2 diabetes in low socio-economic communities: A realist review protocol
Namalambo Mwenda - Ng’uni, Martin Heine, Fastone Goma, Monika Martens, Miriam Mapulanga - Lisulo, Brown Kamanga, Inonge Milupi, Susan Hanekom, Marwan Al-Nimer, Marwan Al-Nimer, Marwan Al-Nimer · 2026
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Description
Mwenda-Ng'uni and colleagues set out a 2026 protocol for a realist review on teaching people with type 2 diabetes in poor communities to understand and use health information. Programs that work in one place often fail in another, and this method asks why.
A realist review builds theories about how context triggers mechanisms that produce outcomes, rather than averaging results. The team will define the scope and draft initial program theories. It will then search databases spanning health and education, select papers for relevance and rigor, and extract and synthesize the evidence. Their framework tracks intervention, context, actors, mechanism, and outcome together. The goal is to explain which educational strategies improve health literacy, for whom, and under what local conditions, so future programs in low-income communities can be designed to fit.
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| CREATOR | Namalambo Mwenda - Ng’uni, Martin Heine, Fastone Goma, Monika Martens, Miriam Mapulanga - Lisulo, Brown Kamanga, Inonge Milupi, Susan Hanekom, Marwan Al-Nimer, Marwan Al-Nimer, Marwan Al-Nimer |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |