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The American Diabetes Association recommends self-management education for patients with type 2 diabetes. The Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed (DESMOND) intervention is a 6-hour structured group education program that is delivered by two professional healthcare educators; it focuses on lifestyle factors including food choices, physical activity, and cardiovascular (CV) risk factors. A randomized trial showed that, after 1 year, the DESMOND program resulted in improvements in weight, smoking cessation, health-belief scores (understanding and perception of the duration, perceived seriousness, and ability to affect the course of their illness), depression, and CV risk scores in patients with newly diagnose…