Phone Call in Type 2 Diabetes Patient

University of Sao Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior Change

Treatments: Behavioral: phone call support

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00810173

Fonseca-Guedes

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assay the influence of personality profile to promote behavior change adherence for physical activity using a pedometer. The investigators also studied the metabolic profile, diagnosis of depression, intention to change behavior, physical activity referred and the quality of life. Casuistic and Methods: a randomized "quasi-experimental" enrolling 48 T2DM patients using a pedometer for 6 weeks. The intervention group received phone calls stimulating them to increase their walking activity. The control group received only one telephone call to explain pedometer use. The investigators also analyzed the personality profile, quality of life, and metabolic and anthropometric indexes.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• to assign written informed consent
• to have a phone call number
• to agree to use a pedometer for 6 weeks to be able to write the data concerning their number of steps per day

Exclusion criteria

• don´t agree to assign written informed consent
• don´t have phone number
• don´t have conditions to answer all the questionnaire
• don´t agree to use pedometer for 6 weeks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

This group received call phone support to incentive the increase of the number of steps during 6 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: phone call support

2

No Intervention group

Description:

This group just received a pedometer to register the number of steps for 6 weeks but this group don´t received a phone call.