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A Nurse-led Smartphone-based Self-management Programme for Type 2 Diabetes Patients With Poor Blood Glucose Control

NCT03088475 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 128

Last updated 2017-03-23

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Summary

Aim. To develop and compare a nurse-led smartphone-based self-management programme with an existing nurse-led diabetes service on health-related outcomes of type 2 diabetes patients with poor glycaemic control in Singapore.

Background. Over the past decades, Asia has emerged as the 'diabetes epicentre' in the world due to rapid economic development, urbanisation, and nutrition transition. There is an urgent need to develop more effective care management strategies in response to this rising diabetes epidemic.

Design. A randomised controlled trial with pre- and repeated post-tests control group design.

Methodology. A total of 128 type 2 diabetes patients with poor glycaemic control will be recruited from the diabetes clinic of a public acute hospital in Singapore through convenience sampling. Study participants will be randomly allocated either to the experimental group or the control group. Outcome measures will include the 10-item General Self-Efficacy Scale, 11-item Revised Summary of Diabetes Self-care Activities, and 19-item Diabetes-Dependent Quality of Life. Data will be collected at three time points: baseline, 3 months, and 6 months from the baseline.

Discussion. It is expected that this programme will be an alternative offered to diabetes patients to master their self-care management skills, in addition to the existing diabetes service provided in diabetes clinics in Singapore hospitals. Furthermore, the self-supporting and less resource-intensive nature of this programme, through the use of a smartphone application as the mode of intervention delivery, will greatly reduce nurses' direct contact time with patients and allow more time to be allocated to those who require more attention.

Conditions

  • Type2 Diabetes Mellitus

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

nurse-led smartphone-based self-management programme

The participants in the experimental group will undergo nurse-led smartphone-based self-management programme (NSSMP), a 6-month programme comprising an individual education session, and a newly developed smartphone App as a self-help education resource

BEHAVIORAL

exiting nurse-led diabetes service

the patients in the control group will receive the exiting nurse-led diabetes service (i.e. NDS) provided by the hospital

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Wenru P Wang, PhD · National University of Singapore

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-01-01
Primary Completion
2019-06-30
Completion
2019-12-30

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