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Although community-based programmes address cultural and accessibility barriers, their isolation from mainstream healthcare systems leads to fragmented care and missed opportunities for early intervention.<\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technologies can enhance accessibility and personalisation, particularly for underserved populations. However, integrating AI into community settings remains underexplored, with socioethical concerns around inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility requiring urgent attention.<\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>This realist review aims to examine how, why and under what circumstances AI applications can be effectively integrated into community-based diabetic care for marginalised populations. The review will develop a programme theory to guide ethical, inclusive and effective AI implementation to ensure AI-driven innovations address health disparities and promote culturally sensitive, accessible care for all.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods and analysis<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses (PRISMA) extension for Reviews guidelines, this realist review will systematically search MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane library, Google Scholar and Scopus, alongside grey literature. A two-stage screening process will identify eligible studies, and data extraction will use a developed tool. Synthesis will employ realist logic, analysing relationships between contexts (eg, organisational capacity), mechanisms (eg, AI functionalities) and outcomes (eg, reduced disparities).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Ethics and dissemination<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Ethics approval is not required for conducting this realist review. Ethics approval will be obtained from the University of Toronto; however, following the completion of the realist review for patients and community members\u2019 engagement to support knowledge mobilisation and dissemination to ensure practical application and reciprocity.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>PROSPERO registration number<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This protocol was registered at PROSPERO (CRD42025636284).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2025-100512","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,15]],"date-time":"2025-07-15T08:55:59Z","timestamp":1752569759000},"page":"e100512","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Integrating artificial intelligence in community-based diabetes care programmes: enhancing inclusiveness, diversity, equity and accessibility a 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