Diabetes Island: Preliminary Impact of a Virtual World Self-Care Educational Intervention for African Americans With Type 2 Diabetes

Laurie Ruggiero   ¹ , PhD ;   Ada Moadsiri   ¹ , MPH, DrPH ;   Lauretta T Quinn   ² , RN, PhD ;   Barth B Riley   ³ , PhD ;   Kirstie K Danielson   ⁴ , PhD ;   Colleen Monahan   ⁵ , DC, MPH ;   Valerie A Bangs   ¹ , BA ;   Ben S Gerber   ^{1, 6, 7} , MD, MPH

¹ Institute for Health Research and Policy and Division of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

² College of Nursing, Department of Biobehavioral Health Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

³ College of Nursing, Department of Health Systems Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

⁴ Division of Transplant Surgery, Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

⁵ Center for Advancement of Distance Education, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

⁶ Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States

⁷ College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States