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Breaking Down Barriers to Diabetes Self-Care

NCT00142922 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 222

Last updated 2010-03-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Performance of self-care recommendations is key to the successful treatment of diabetes. However, many patients have difficulty adhering to diabetes self-care recommendations. Recent results from our own studies and others have identified specific barriers to diabetes self-care. To evaluate the efficacy of a diabetes educator-led group intervention, the Breaking Down Barriers Program, that addresses barriers and therefore leads to improved adherence to diabetes self-care recommendations, we will randomize 222 (111 type 1 and 111 type 2) diabetes patients to one of three conditions: 1) the Breaking Down Barriers Program, 2) a cholesterol attention control condition, or 3) a 'usual care' control condition. We hypothesize that those assigned to the Breaking Down Barriers group will improve self-care behaviors and glycemic control more than those in the two control groups. We will follow study subjects for one year to determine whether their self-care behaviors and glycemic control improved and if the improvement was maintained over time.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Breaking Down Barriers

completed

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Katie Weinger, EdD · Joslin Diabetes Center/Harvard Medical School

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-10-31
Completion
2007-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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