An Online System to Improve Diabetes Self-Care

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Treatments: Behavioral: Access to online patient portal

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00119938

51758

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to see if an online program for patients with diabetes helps patients improve their self-care (how they take their medications, what they eat, how much they exercise, and whether they smoke).

Full description

Patient portals are online programs that can provide a number of functions for patients, among them:

• Ability to request appointments, referrals, and medication refills;
• Ability to send secure electronic messages to medical staff, and to receive replies;
• Access to the medical record;
• Disease management

We are comparing two patient portals with different sets of features to determine if personalized information and guidance can improve self-care and measures of diabetes-related health. Self-care measures will be assessed using standardized questionnaires at baseline, 3, and 6 months. Chart review will be used to assess measures of diabetes-related health.

Enrollment: 331 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes mellitus
• Has access to Internet
• Has e-mail address
• Established patient at one of four participating practices at University of Colorado Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Non-English speaking