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Randomised Trial of Health Coaching in Secondary Prevention of Diabetes and Heart Disease

NCT00552903 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1500

Last updated 2009-02-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

A randomised trial with individual patients as units of observation will be carried out. Health coaching is used to modify health behaviour and thus improve disease control and health status, as well as use of health care services. A personal health coach is assigned to each patient and they are in weekly contact through telephone. The intervention lasts for 12 months. No intervention is offered to the patients in the control arm.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Health coaching

Personal health coach providing advice and counselling by telephone, weekly contacts

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund

    collaborator OTHER

  • Pfizer

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Tampere University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Paijat-Hame Hospital District

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Martti Talja, MD · Päijät Häme Central Hospital

  • Ilmo Parvinen, MD · Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-11-30
Primary Completion
2009-11-30
Completion
2010-05-31

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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