a Risk Assessment and Management Program Using Telecare Consultation Among Patients With Diabetes Mellitus

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Procedure: telecare consultation; Procedure: Usual face to face consultation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05183685

A0034230

Details and patient eligibility

About

Telecare consultation, which is defined as a two-way synchronized visual (voice and image) communication between patients and healthcare professionals using telecommunication applications such as Zoom, has become a major trend in recent years. The current COVID-19 pandemic provides an impetus to drive change and increase the uptake of telecare consultation in healthcare. To the best of investigators' knowledge, there is no translational research available that simultaneously implements and evaluates the telecare model of care delivered in a primary care setting. The present study will be the first in Hong Kong to fill this service and knowledge gap in the care of DM patients.

Enrollment: 780 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 18 or above, having a confirmed diagnosis of diabetes, having regular follow-ups in the clinic

Exclusion criteria

• having dementia, having unaccompanied hearing or vision loss, not having an Internet connection at home

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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780 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The participants will receive alternative telecare consultation and face to face consultation every 14 weeks.

Treatment:

Procedure: telecare consultation

Control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

The participants will receive usual face to face consultation every 14 weeks.

Treatment:

Procedure: Usual face to face consultation