Ready to Act - Health Education in People With Hyperglycaemia

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior; Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Behavioral: Ready to act

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01945645

20000183

Ready to Act

Details and patient eligibility

About

A pre-randomized study in primary health care was designed to investigate health education in a subpopulation extracted from general practitioners (GPs) in one Danish county in the treatment arm of the ADDITION (Anglo-Danish-Dutch Study of Intensive Treatment in People with Screen-Detected Diabetes in Primary Care) study, DK. The overall objective of the 'Ready to Act' health education programme was to support the participants' competences in daily life and act appropriately with respect to their dysglycaemic condition. The achievement of action competence involved four learning objectives: intrinsic motivation, informed decision-making, action experience and social involvement. The programme was delivered in primary care settings (health centre or GP surgeries) by nurses, dieticians, physiotherapists and GPs.

Enrollment: 509 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 69 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 40-69 years at the time of screening and diagnosed with screen-detected T2D, IGT or IFG (according to WHO criteria).

Exclusion criteria

• women who were pregnant or lactating, those with a psychotic illness or an illness with a prognosis of less than one year.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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509 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The Ready to Act programme aimed to promote health-related action competence including motivation, informed decision-making, action experience and social involvement The intervention was delivered across a number of primary care settings including the GP office, health centre and pharmacy. The programme consisted of two individual counselling interviews and eight group sessions, which totalled 18 hours within a three month period.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Ready to act