comparison of the effect of education using team-based learning method and lecture method on controlling diabetes in the elderly: a quasi-experimental study

Background: 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.methods: 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.results: 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).conclusion: 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.