NCT00119938

An Online System to Improve Diabetes Self-Care

D-STAR (Diabetes-System To Access Records): An Online Patient Portal to Improve and Sustain Diabetes Self-Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 331 (actual)
• Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to see if an online program for patients with diabetes helps patients improve their self-care (how they take their medications, what they eat, how much they exercise, and whether they smoke).

Detailed description

Patient portals are online programs that can provide a number of functions for patients, among them: * Ability to request appointments, referrals, and medication refills; * Ability to send secure electronic messages to medical staff, and to receive replies; * Access to the medical record; * Disease management We are comparing two patient portals with different sets of features to determine if personalized information and guidance can improve self-care and measures of diabetes-related health. Self-care measures will be assessed using standardized questionnaires at baseline, 3, and 6 months. Chart review will be used to assess measures of diabetes-related health.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Access to online patient portal

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-09-01
• Completion: 2006-12-01
• First posted: 2005-07-14
• Last updated: 2008-08-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States