Translation of the X-PERT Diabetes Digital Programme into 14 Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) languages

NICE规定**应邀请所有糖尿病前期/ 2型糖尿病患者参加有组织的教育**，以便他们能够发展知识/理解/信心来自我管理他们的病情，以改善他们的健康/福祉并预防糖尿病相关并发症。**X-PERT Health是一家全国性的结构化教育提供商**。该计划是由迪肯博士经过数年的研究生研究开发的，完全以证据为基础。在开发之前，在患者焦点小组中进行了严格的测试，作为满足需求的一揽子引人入胜的教育，并通过临床试验进行了严格的评估，这表明参与者的健康/福祉得到了显着改善。**随着声誉的提高，我们收到了世界各地会议的邀请，并建立了自己的总部和培训中心。我们举办的课程旨在培训医疗专业人员，并将工作人员联系起来，通过小组会议向患者提供我们的教育。然而，在过去的两年里，我们一直在与科技公司合作，使该课程能够数字化。我们意识到并非所有人都愿意或能够参加小组会议。**数字课程将使人们能够在适合他们的时间和地点接受为期12个月的教育。**我们于20年6月4日推出数码节目。医疗保健专业人员可以通过智能手机/平板电脑/笔记本电脑推荐患者使用该计划。这是及时的，因为2019冠状病毒病疫情导致所有团体教育项目停止。迄今为止，已有500多名患者转诊。它的创新之处在于，它提供的不是一个阅读糖尿病的平台，而是一个引人入胜的2D/3D视频和游戏包，以及跟踪/聊天功能，以复制基于群组的项目的成功，该项目基于中国古老的谚语“我听到了，我忘记了；我看见了，我记得；我明白，我明白。”然而，目前只有英文版本。**也许，最需要的是BAME社区，所以我们打算将该计划改编成14种不同的语言** -阿拉伯语/孟加拉语/中文/古吉拉特语/印地语/尼泊尔语/波斯语/波兰语/旁遮普语/罗马尼亚语/索马里语/泰米尔语/土耳其语/乌尔都语。来自BAME人群的人患2型糖尿病的可能性是其他人的3至6倍，他们也更有可能患上更严重的COVID-19。据我们所知，没有其他英国数字化糖尿病结构化教育项目可用这些语言。**因此，这将是一个真正的原创项目，将帮助BAME社区的人们自我管理糖尿病，并减轻COVID-19疫情对健康的影响

NICE stipulate that **all people with prediabetes/Type 2 diabetes should be invited to attend structured education** so that they can develop the knowledge/understanding/confidence to self-manage their condition to improve their health/wellbeing and prevent diabetes-related complications.**X-PERT Health is a national provider of structured education**. The programme was developed by Dr Deakin over several years of postgraduate research and is totally evidence-based. This was rigorously tested in patient focus groups, before development as a package of engaging education to meet needs and **rigorously evaluated by a clinical trial, which demonstrated significantly improved health/wellbeing amongst attendees.** As its reputation grew, invitations were received to address conferences worldwide and we developed our own HQ and training Centre. Courses are held to train healthcare professionals and link workers to deliver our education to their patients via group sessions. However, over the previous two years we have been working with technology companies to enable the programme to become available digitally. We realised that not all people are willing or able to attend group sessions. **The digital programme will enable people to access the education at a time and place that is suitable for them, for a period of 12 months.**We launched the digital programme on the 6/4/20\. Healthcare professionals can refer patients to access the programme via their smart phone/tablet/laptop. This was timely due to the COVID-19 outbreak which resulted in all group education programmes being stopped. To date, more than 500 patients have been referred. It is innovative because rather than provide a platform for reading about diabetes, it is a package of engaging 2D/3D videos and games along with tracking/chatting functionalities to replicate the success of the group-based programme, based on the old Chinese proverb of "I hear, I forget; I see, I remember; I do, I understand".However, currently it is only available in English. **Probably, the greatest need is among BAME communities, so it is our intention to adapt the programme into 14 different languages** - Arabic/Bengali/Chinese/Gujarati/Hindi/Nepalese/Persian/Polish/Punjabi/Romanian/Somali/Tamil/Turkish/Urdu. People from BAME populations are 3 to 6 times more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes and they are also more likely to develop a more serious form of COVID-19\. To our knowledge, no other UK digital diabetes structured education programme is available in these languages. **Thus, this will be a truly original project that will help people from BAME communities self-manage their diabetes and mitigate the health impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak.**