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

NICE规定，**所有糖尿病前期/2型糖尿病患者都应被邀请参加结构化教育**，以便他们能够发展知识/理解/信心来自我管理自己的状况，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**。该项目是由迪肯博士经过几年的研究生研究开发的，完全是基于证据的。这在患者焦点群体中经过了严格的测试，然后开发为满足需求的参与式教育方案，并**通过临床试验进行了严格的评估，证明参与者的健康/福祉得到了显著改善。**随着其声誉的提高，我们收到了在世界各地的会议上发表演讲的邀请，我们建立了自己的总部和培训中心。举办课程是为了培训医疗保健专业人员和联系工作人员，通过小组会议向他们的患者提供我们的教育。然而，在过去两年里，我们一直在与科技公司合作，使该计划能够以数字形式提供。我们意识到，并不是所有人都愿意或有能力参加小组会议。**数码课程将使人们能够在适合自己的时间和地点接受教育，为期12个月。**我们于6/4/20推出了数字课程。医疗保健专业人员可以推荐患者通过智能手机/平板电脑/笔记本电脑访问该计划。这是及时的，因为新冠肺炎疫情导致所有团体教育方案被叫停。到目前为止，已转介了500多名患者。它的创新之处在于，它不是提供一个阅读糖尿病相关信息的平台，而是一系列引人入胜的2D/3D视频和游戏，以及追踪/聊天功能，以复制基于群体的项目的成功，基于古老的中国谚语：我听到，我忘记；我看到，我记住；我做，我理解。但目前，它只有英文版本。**可能，最大的需求是在BAME社区中，所以我们打算将该计划改编成14种不同的语言**-Arabic/Bengali/Chinese/Gujarati/Hindi/Nepalese/Persian/Polish/Punjabi/Romanian/Somali/Tamil/Turkish/Urdu.来自BAME人群的人患2型糖尿病的可能性是普通人的3到6倍，他们也更有可能患上更严重的新冠肺炎。据我们所知，没有其他英国数字糖尿病结构化教育课程以这些语言提供。**因此，这将是一个真正具有原创性的项目，将帮助来自北京医学会社区的人们自我管理他们的糖尿病，并缓解新冠肺炎爆发对健康的影响。**

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.**