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Improving Insulin Therapy With Enhanced Care Management

NCT00320112 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 244

Last updated 2015-04-24

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Summary

VA diabetes patients often have difficulty managing their self-care and accessing clinic-based services; many also lack social support to help them meet the demands of their illness. Enhanced support is especially important when undertaking and sustaining new challenging self-care tasks, such as initiating or intensifying insulin treatment regimens. Although some VAs have implemented telephone nurse care management programs supported by automated calling services, many are reluctant to adopt these models due to nursing shortages.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Reciprocal Diabetes Peer Support Program

participants are paired with another age-matched participation. Paired peer partners were encouraged to talk weekly using a telephone platform that recorded call frequency and duration and provided automated reminders promoting peer contact.

BEHAVIORAL

Nurse Case management

patients are not paired in the NCM arm attended a 1.5 hour session to receive education on care manager services and diabetes educational materials and be assigned to a nurse care manager with whom they were encouraged to follow-up regularly.

BEHAVIORAL

group outpatient counseling visits

Participants in the peer group were also offered three optional 1.5 hour patient-driven group sessions at month 1, 3, and 6

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • John D. Piette, PhD · VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-02-28
Primary Completion
2009-10-31
Completion
2010-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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