Improving Diabetes Outcomes for Persons With Severe Mental Illness

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: Diabetes self-management and education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02053714

13-3211

Details and patient eligibility

About

Persons with severe mental illness are at great risk for developing type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Unfortunately, persons with mental illness and T2DM are less likely to receive recommended diabetes monitoring and are more likely to have poorly controlled diabetes, which leads to microvascular and macrovascular complications later in life. Evidence-based diabetes self-management education and support interventions have yet to be adapted for persons with mental illness and there have been no randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to examine their feasibility and efficacy. The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of conducting a RCT of a diabetes self-management intervention for persons with severe mental illness and T2DM.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: Type 2 diabetes plus severe mental illness -

Exclusion Criteria: None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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18 participants in 1 patient group

Self-management and education group

Other group

Description:

Self-management and education group - 8 weeks of group-based information and activities designed to improve diabetes self-management

Treatment:

Behavioral: Diabetes self-management and education