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Skills for Change: Nutrition Education Program for Emirati Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

NCT04264793 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 382

Last updated 2020-02-11

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Summary

The "Skills for Change" Diabetes Nutrition Education Program was a one-year, community-based conducted in Ambulatory Health Care Services health centers in Al Ain. The project involved nutrition education to improve blood glucose control, diet and physical activity levels of Emirati adults with type 2 diabetes.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral Lifestyle Intervention

In addition to usual care in the health center, the intervention included 7 visits with the health center dietitian for individual nutrition counseling, invitation for group nutrition education (5 sessions), individual counseling for physical activity, invitation for a 6-weekly structured group physical activity, DVD on physical activity to perform physical activity at home.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual Care

Patients received usual care including education as part of the diabetes management from their healthcare professionals (physicians and nurses), normally every 2-3 months. Visits with the health center dietitian were arranged as per physician referral.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ambulatory Healthcare Services, Al Ain, UAE

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • United Arab Emirates University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Habiba I. Ali, PhD, RD,CDE · United Arab Emirates University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-11-20
Primary Completion
2013-11-28
Completion
2013-12-24

Countries

  • United Arab Emirates

Study Locations

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Diseases

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