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Structured Diabetes Self-Management Education in Primary Care and Metabolic Control

NCT01473329 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 138

Last updated 2011-11-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Education is the mainstay of treatment of diabetes mellitus (DM), since it is through her that patients are trained to perform the management of your disease. There is a wide range of educational interventions tested in patients with DM, not having been defined so far a universal template that can be standardized and recognized as effective for all individuals with the disease. The present study aims to evaluate the effect of a group based structured education program, applied by a primary care generalist nurse, on metabolic control of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) patients attending a primary care unit.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Structured Diabetes Education

The intervention group received a structured DSME course adapted from 15. The course was composed by weekly 2 hour meetings for five weeks total hours group of 10 patient and reinforcement meetings every 4 months, for one year

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-07-31
Completion
2011-07-31

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