Dealing With Anxiety: A Cognitive Behavioural Program for Diabetes

Hunter and New England Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Treatments: Behavioral: Delayed CBT; Behavioral: Immediate Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00659932

02/03/13/3.18

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was designed to assess whether a cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) program for diabetes clinic patients was acceptable, improved quality of life and produced measurable change in levels of depression, anxiety and stress.

Full description

Having co-morbid anxiety or depression makes it difficult to carry out the activities for diabetes selfcare. Psychological interventions have been shown to result in improvements in HbA1C and depression. Reports on psychosocial outcomes are conflicting and there are no studies of quality of life. Our diabetes outpatient population has a higher prevalence of anxiety and depression compared to the general public and this led to the development of a group CBT intervention designed to reduce anxiety as a co-morbidity of diabetes.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Consenting attendees of the Hunter Area Diabetes Services RNH Diabetes Outpatient Clinic

Exclusion criteria

• Accessibility problems including:

  • limited English
  • developmental disability
  • physical immobility
  • geographical distance
  • extreme age/frailty

Trial design

64 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Immediate Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

2

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Delayed CBT