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Understanding and Improving Diabetes Care for Ethnic Minorities

NCT01123239 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 540

Last updated 2015-05-27

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Summary

In this study, we are testing the effectiveness of an intervention known as "Coached Care" to improve health outcomes and quality of care of patients being treated for type 2 diabetes, particularly patients in underserved populations. The intervention involves training members of minority communities who have diabetes to be "coaches", teaching minority patients the skills needed to participate effectively in care during office visits, as they present for those visits. Coaches follow patients for 9 routine consecutive visits, reinforcing participation skills before and between their routine office visits.

Conditions

  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Coached Care

Coached Care pairs patients with linguistically and ethnically matched peer "coaches", who themselves have diabetes, and have been trained to meet with patients immediately before each of their regularly scheduled medical visits to encourage active involvement in information seeking and decision-making. Using a decision tree algorithm, they help patients identify relevant questions about symptoms, barriers to self-management and treatment options to discuss with doctor. They encourage mutual decision-making about tailoring the patient's medication regimen, diet and physical activities and work with the patients to overcome barriers to communication with their doctor. After the medical visit, the coach and patient review any treatment decisions and goals for self-care.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard Diabetes Education

Patients randomized to the control group will receive 20 minutes of standardized diabetes education delivered by staff research assistants. Education materials have been adapted from materials developed by the American Diabetes Association. The content of these materials includes information about the causes and complications of diabetes, as well as ways to reduce complication risks. Patients in the control arm will receive 20 minutes of standardized diabetes education before each visit

Sponsors & Collaborators

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

    collaborator NIH

  • University of California, Irvine

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-03-31
Completion
2013-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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