MATCH: The Mexican-American Trial of Community Health Workers

Exclusion Criteria

• •Diabetes controlled with diet or insulin only
• •Advanced end-organ complications, including: end-stage renal disease, stroke with paresis, Congestive Heart Failure (NYHA class 3 or 4), or other major end-organ complication of diabetes
• •Receiving treatment for a major psychiatric disorder (i.e. schizophrenia)
• •Are unable to understand and give informed consent in either English or Spanish
• •Live in a household with someone who is already a randomized study participant or know of family members who are already study participants.
• •Have lived in Mexico for more than four months in the past two years, or are anticipating extended travel to Mexico in the next year.
• •Are under the age of 18