Healthy Eating & Active Living for Diabetes in Primary Care Networks (HEALD-PCN)

The Alliance for Canadian Health Outcomes Research in Diabetes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: Usual Care; Behavioral: HEALD

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00991380

Ach0rd-1001-09

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aim to establish the effectiveness of a prescribed, community-based lifestyle modification program for those with recently diagnosed diabetes. The investigators hypothesize that those who enter a 6 month program will report greater levels of physical activity compared to a group who do not enter the program but who continue to receive usual care.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult, recent type 2 diabetes diagnosis according to a diabetes patient registry, received a referral to a group-based lifestyle program or some provider-based diabetes related education.

Exclusion criteria

• physical limitation, cardiovascular contraindication, participation in any other research study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Lifestyle counselling

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: HEALD

Usual Care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Usual Care