Telephone Delivered Behavioral Skills Intervention for Blacks With T2DM

Summary

Blacks or African Americans have greater risk of and are more likely to die from type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Major barriers to effective diabetes care for Blacks include poor diabetes knowledge, self-management skills, empowerment, and perceived control. Few prior studies have tested interventions to address these barriers in combination, especially among Blacks who have the greatest burden of diabetes related complications. This study provides a unique opportunity to address this gap in the literature by testing the efficacy of separate and combined telephone-delivered, diabetes knowledge and motivation/behavioral skills training intervention in high risk Blacks with poorly controlled T2DM. The findings of this study, if successful, will provide new information on how to improve quality of care for diabetes in ethnic minorities and reduce the disproportionate burden of diabetes complications and deaths in this population.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• Diabetes Mellitus, Adult-Onset
• Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
• Diabetes Mellitus, Noninsulin Dependent
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type II

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Diabetes Knowledge/Information

This group will receive telephone-delivered diabetes knowledge/information lasting 30 minutes for 12 weeks.

BEHAVIORAL

Motivation/Behavioral Skills

This intervention consists of patient activation, patient empowerment, and behavioral skills training delivered via telephone lasting 30 minutes every week for 12 weeks.

BEHAVIORAL

Combined Intervention

This group will receive all components of the diabetes knowledge/information and the motivation/behavioral skills interventions via telephone lasting 30 minutes every week for 12 weeks.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual Care

This group will receive telephone-delivered general health education lasting 30 minutes for 12 weeks to control for attention and content.

Sponsors & Collaborators

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

  collaborator NIH

• State University of New York at Buffalo

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Leonard E Egede, MD, MS · Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2008-08-31

Primary Completion

2016-06-30

Completion

2016-06-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations