Effectiveness of Two Interventions in Patients With Low Educational Level With Diabetes to Reduce Inequalities in Self-care Behavior

Andalusian School of Public Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Treatments: Other: Face-to-face; Other: Face-to-face intervention plus telephone reinforcement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01849731

PI-0096-2010

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this cluster randomized trial is to determine whether an intervention implemented in a General Surgery, based in improving patient-provider communication, results in a better diabetes self-management in patients with lower educational level. A secondary objective is to assess whether telephone reinforcement enhances the effect of such intervention.

Enrollment: 184 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of DM2,
• Over 18 years,
• Low educational level (no college to GBS or ESO),
• Inadequate glycemic control (glycosylated hemoglobin levels above 7%)

Exclusion criteria

• Physical or mental condition that prevents the completion of the intervention - complications arising from severe DM2 altering routine medical monitoring.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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184 participants in 3 patient groups

Intervention A

Experimental group

Description:

Face-to face intervention

Treatment:

Other: Face-to-face

Intervention B

Experimental group

Description:

Face-to-face intervention plus telephone reinforcement

Treatment:

Other: Face-to-face intervention plus telephone reinforcement

Control Group

No Intervention group