Comparison of the Effect of Education Using Team-based Learning Method and Lecture Method on Controlling Diabetes in the Elderly: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Patient education is considered as an essential part of diabetes control. This researchis conducted to compare the effect of education using team-based learning (TBL) method and lecturemethod on blood pressure (BP), serum levels of fasting blood sugar (FBS), glycosylated hemoglobin(HbA1c), and Body mass index (BMI) in the elderly with diabetes. This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 61 elderly patients with type 2 diabetesin diabetes clinics in Rafsanjan, during October 2018 to January 2019. Patients were selected usingsimple random sampling. They were divided into two groups of TBL and lecture-based learning. Foreach group, educational content was presented through 2-hour sessions held once a week for 1 months.FBS, HbA1c, BMI, and BP were measured at baseline and 3 months after the intervention. Data wereanalyzed through SPSS 21, using Chi-square test, independent t-test, and paired t-test; A P-value<0.05was considered as significant. After the intervention, the TBL group had a significant decrease in systolic and diastolic BPcompared to the lecture group (P<0.001). Before and 3 months after the intervention in the TBL group,there was a significant decrease between the means of FBS (P=0.01), HbA1c (P<0.001), and systolicand diastolic BP (P<0.001), but in the lecture group, only the systolic BP showed a significant decrease(P<0.001). TBL method had more effects on controlling diabetes type 2 in the elderly than thelecture method. It is suggested that health providers should consider TBL for the education of theelderly with diabetes.