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Diabetes Screening, Risk Management and Disease Management in a High-Risk Mental Health Population

NCT00253240 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2018-11-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Family physicians are the primary health care providers for complex patients such as persons with serious mental illness. The psychiatric needs of these patients could take attention away from management of health problems and from usual health promotion services. For example, Schizophrenia is associated with a higher than normal incidence of diabetes, and first line treatments of Schizophrenia have also been found to increase risk for diabetes. As such, this high-risk group requires targeted diabetes strategies. In London Ontario, services are provided to this high risk mental health population primarily by two community agencies: The Western Ontario Therapeutic Community Hostel (WOTCH) and the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA). Accordingly, the goal of this project is to assess how these patients are currently being managed by their family physicians and to pilot a community-based, multidisciplinary diabetes clinic model within this population. If this delivery model proves feasible and effective, family physicians could be assisted by existing community agencies in the management of their patients' diabetes and patients will receive improved access to this vital multidisciplinary team.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Screening

PROCEDURE

Management

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Western Ontario Therapeutic Community Hostel (WOTCH)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Canadian Mental Health Association

    collaborator OTHER

  • London Intercommunity Health Centre (LIHC)

    collaborator OTHER

  • London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • David RS Haslam, MSc MD FRCPC · St. Joseph's Health Care London

  • Stewart B Harris, MD MPH CCFP FACPM · Centre for Studies in Family Medicine

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-09-30
Completion
2005-09-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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