Telephone Use for Care of Persons With Diabetes Mellitus. (TCDM)

University of Sao Paulo

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Behavioral: telephone support

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01972412

EERP - 146.171

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether phone use contributes to diabetes control.

Full description

Studies reinforce the need to test innovative care that can serve more patients, since education is a key element for the accession to the treatment of diabetes. Recently, an innovative, feasible and low cost presented in the literature is the use of telephone support as an intervention strategy This study aims to evaluate the implementation of a telephone support for self-monitoring of people with diabetes mellitus treated in ribeirão Preto.

Enrollment: 296 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diabetes mellitus type 2
• age
• ability to listen and answer questions

Exclusion criteria

• often present less than 75% participation in the proposed activities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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296 participants in 1 patient group

Telephone support

Other group

Description:

Intervention type: Telephone support for four months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: telephone support