Peer Coaching for Low-Income Patients With Diabetes in Primary Care

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Type 2

Treatments: Behavioral: Health coaching; Behavioral: Usual care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01040806

H40013-34104-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with diabetes who are counseled by a peer coach (another patient with diabetes) will have improved glycemic control compared with usual care patients.

Full description

Peer coaches have controlled diabetes, patient study subjects have poorly controlled diabetes.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diabetes with most recent HbA1c 8 or above in past 6 months.

Exclusion criteria

• Dementia,
• Life expectancy less than 6 months,
• Inability to speak English or Spanish.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Health coaching

Experimental group

Description:

Patients with poorly controlled diabetes will receive counseling from a peer health coach -- a patient with diabetes trained in health coaching

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health coaching

Usual care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients will receive usual care

Treatment:

Behavioral: Usual care