Improving Chronic Illness Management With the Apsaalooke Nation: The Baa Nnilah Project

Montana State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: baa nnilah

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03036189

U01MD010619 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

MontanaSU

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a group randomized trial of an intervention to improve chronic illness self-management.

Enrollment: 211 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ≥ 25 years
• AI
• diagnosed with diabetes
• hypertension
• osteoporosis
• liver disease
• chronic lung disease (asthma, chronic bronchitis or emphysema)
• heart disease (coronary artery disease or congestive heart failure)
• stroke (completed cerebrovascular accident with neurologic handicap and normal mentation)
• chronic arthritis

Exclusion criteria

• major medical illness that precludes their attendance at 7 meetings
• <25 years of age

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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211 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention arm

Experimental group

Description:

There are no devices or drugs used in this trial. The treatment is the same for the intervention arm and the wait-list control arm. The treatment is group trial of 7 meetings designed to improve chronic illness self-management. The name of the treatment is baa nnilah.

Treatment:

Behavioral: baa nnilah

Wait-list control arm

Experimental group

Description:

There are no devices or drugs used in this trial. The treatment is the same for the intervention arm and the wait-list control arm. The treatment is group trial of 7 meetings designed to improve chronic illness self-management. The name of the treatment is baa nnilah.

Treatment:

Behavioral: baa nnilah