Development of a Complex Intervention for Effective Management of Type 2 Diabetes in a Developing Country
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I was intrigued by your study, I found your work extremely interesting.
This study presents an effort to regulate knowledge about diabetes and turn it to a practical application in order to develop an interdisciplinary management model for diabetic individuals in developing countries.
The key question is whether a team of diabetes professionals can be set up and build a framework for approaching patients in many ways.
The authors relied on theoretical behavioural models on order to develop an evidence based intervention.
The intervention is called VICKY and has 5 components that help to improve patients outcomes.
The research falls within the scope of the journal. It is original and adds a more specific way of approach these individuals in developing countries.
This paper is well written and easy to comprehend.
The conclusions are in line with the results and answer the central question of the research.
Author Response
Response to Reviewers’ Comments
Development of a complex intervention for effective management of type
2 diabetes in a developing country - Manuscript ID: jcm-1589678
We would like to thank you all, the Editor and the reviewers, for your feedback and comments on the manuscript. We have addressed the feedback and comments as explained in our point-by-point response below.
Note to the Editor’s comments
- Language editing of the manuscript has been carefully undertaken in consultation with an expert language editor at our university.
Response to reviewers’ comments
Response to reviewer: 1
- This study presents an effort to regulate knowledge about diabetes and turn it to a practical application in order to develop an interdisciplinary management model for diabetic individuals in developing countries. The key question is whether a team of diabetes professionals can be set up and build a framework for approaching patients in many ways.
Authors’ response
- Yes, a team of diabetes professionals (multidisciplinary diabetes care team) will be established in the next phase of this work (pilot test and implementation phase).
- The authors relied on theoretical behavioural models on order to develop an evidence-based intervention.
Authors’ response and explanation:
- We used a theoretical behavioural model for the intervention design as strong evidence indicates.
- A theoretical behavioural approach in the design of health care interventions has been shown to improve the effectiveness of healthcare interventions, including diabetes in behavioural change interventions.
- The theoretical model we used is a comprehensive framework that has been effectively used for designing behavioural interventions in diverse health care settings of developed and developing countries.
Reviewer 2 Report
This original manuscript focuses on the development of a develop a theory-driven, tailored and context-specific complex intervention for effective management of type 2 diabetes at a tertiary care setting of a developing country.
This is an interesting article. The paper is generally well written and structured.
Quality of Figure 1 and Figure 3 should be improved. I suggest making them more similar to Figure 2.
Author Response
Response to Reviewers’ Comments
Development of a complex intervention for effective management of type
2 diabetes in a developing country - Manuscript ID: jcm-1589678
We would like to thank you all, the Editor and the reviewers, for your feedback and comments on the manuscript. We have addressed the feedback and comments as explained in our point-by-point response below.
Note to the Editor’s comments
- Language editing of the manuscript has been carefully undertaken in consultation with an expert language editor at our university.
Response to reviewers’ comments
Response to reviewer: 2
- Quality of Figure 1 and Figure 3 should be improved. I suggest making them more similar to Figure 2.
Authors’ response
- Figure 1 and Figure 3 have been formatted in a way that is similar to Figure 2 (line numbers 96-109 for Figure 1; and on line numbers 233-340 for Figure 3 of the manuscript).
