Improvement of Care for Outpatients With Type 2 Diabetes Through Self-Care Multidisciplinary Workshop for Diabetes

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Behavioral: Usual Care; Behavioral: Workshop

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03074383

16-0646

Details and patient eligibility

About

Ninety-six patients with diabetes will be randomly assigned to maintain standard treatment or participate in the Self-Care Multidisciplinary Workshop for Diabetes. The workshop consists of individual meetings, with a multidisciplinary team (nurse, pharmacist, nutritionist, physical educator and social worker) in which education and self-care topics will be approached aiming at the formation of knowledge and skills necessary for patient self-care. The workshop will be offered in 3 different modules with 2 to 4 weeks difference between them. The variation of glycated hemoglobin as well as aspects associated with self-care, adherence and quality of life will be evaluated at the study entry, 6 and 12 months later.

Full description

Ninety-six patients with type 2 diabetes from our Diabetes Outpatient Clinic will be randomly assigned to maintain standard treatment or participate in the Self-Care Multidisciplinary Workshop for Diabetes. The workshop consists of 15-minute individual meetings with each professional of a multidisciplinary team (nurse, pharmacist, nutritionist, physical educator and social worker) in which education and self-care topics will be approached aiming at the formation of knowledge and skills necessary for patient self-care. The workshop will be offered in 3 different modules with 2 to 4 weeks difference between them.

Patients will be followed for 12 months. The variation of glycated hemoglobin as well as aspects associated with self-care, adherence and quality of life will be evaluated at the study entry, 6 and 12 months later.

Enrollment: 96 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with previous diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, HbA1c greater than 7.5% and age greater than 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• Types of diabetes other than type 2 diabetes; neurological, psychiatric or cognitive impairment that prevents proper understanding and participation in the workshop

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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96 participants in 2 patient groups

Workshop

Experimental group

Description:

Self-Care Multidisciplinary Workshop for Diabetes consist in individual meetings with a multidisciplinary team (nurse, pharmacist, nutritionist, physical educator, physiotherapist and social worker) in which education and self-care topics will be approached. The workshop will be offered in 3 different modules with 2-4 weeks difference between them.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Workshop

Usual Care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Usual care at outpatient Diabetes clinic AND 3 brief meetings with research team to receive printed educational material.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Usual Care