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ACHRU Community Partnership Program for Diabetes Self-Management for Older Adults - Canada

NCT03664583 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 295

Last updated 2023-03-31

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Summary

Living with diabetes and other chronic (ongoing) conditions is common in older adults. These individuals have poorer health and higher use of health services compared to older adults with diabetes alone. Programs that help older adults self-manage their diabetes and other health conditions benefit both individuals and the healthcare system. The McMaster University Aging, Community and Health Research Unit developed and tested a new patient-centered, community-based program (CPP) to improve the delivery and outcomes of care for older adults with diabetes and other chronic conditions. This 6-month program was developed in partnership with patients, caregivers, primary and community care providers and researchers. The program is delivered by nurses, dietitians and community providers. It involves in-home or virtual visits by nurses and dietitians, monthly group wellness sessions at community centers or virtually, and monthly virtual team meetings. Wellness sessions include exercise, education, and social support. Caregivers are invited to be active participants along with patients. The program was successfully implemented in Ontario and Alberta. Participants who received the program had better quality of life, self-management, and mental health at no additional cost from a societal perspective compared to those receiving usual care. To determine how the program can best help people, more testing is needed with different communities and groups of people. We will partner with primary healthcare teams (e.g., family doctors' offices) in three provinces to adapt and test the program in a variety of real-world settings. We will assess how to best put this program into practice and measure outcomes important to patients and caregivers so study results are relevant to them. Study findings will guide the development of a plan for expanding the program to reach and benefit more older adults with diabetes and other chronic health conditions. Patients and caregivers will be involved as key partners in all aspects of the research.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ACHRU-Community Partnership Program (CPP)

The intervention is a 6-month community navigation and self-management program for patients with diabetes and at least one additional chronic condition, and their caregivers, to improve health outcomes. The intervention will be provided by an interprofessional team of providers and consists of six core components.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Maureen Markle-Reid, RN, PhD · McMaster University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-04-01
Primary Completion
2022-05-20
Completion
2023-03-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT03664583 on ClinicalTrials.gov