Family-Centered Diabetes Project - Sharing Wisdom

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prediabetes; Overweight; Obesity; Metabolic Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: A lifestyle educational program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00438126

DK47096 (completed)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized trial of an educational intervention to reduce the risk of diabetes among urban American Indian women

Full description

Two hundred American Indian women aged 18 to 40 years were recruited from a large Southwest city to participate in a type 2 diabetes prevention intervention. Half of the women were randomized to participated in the educational intervention and half were assigned to a delayed intervention. Measures were obtained at baseline, 6-months,12-months and 18-months.

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• American Indian women
• Aged 18-40 years
• Living in Albuquerque area
• Not having diabetes

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Planning to become pregnant within 2 years
• Diagnosed with diabetes fasting blood glucose > 126 planning to move out of town in next 2 years

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)