NCT00142922

Breaking Down Barriers to Diabetes Self-Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 222 (planned)
• Sponsor: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) · NIH
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Performance of self-care recommendations is key to the successful treatment of diabetes. However, many patients have difficulty adhering to diabetes self-care recommendations. Recent results from our own studies and others have identified specific barriers to diabetes self-care. To evaluate the efficacy of a diabetes educator-led group intervention, the Breaking Down Barriers Program, that addresses barriers and therefore leads to improved adherence to diabetes self-care recommendations, we will randomize 222 (111 type 1 and 111 type 2) diabetes patients to one of three conditions: 1) the Breaking Down Barriers Program, 2) a cholesterol attention control condition, or 3) a 'usual care' control condition. We hypothesize that those assigned to the Breaking Down Barriers group will improve self-care behaviors and glycemic control more than those in the two control groups. We will follow study subjects for one year to determine whether their self-care behaviors and glycemic control improved and if the improvement was maintained over time.

Conditions

• Type 1 Diabetes
• Type 2 Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Breaking Down Barriers	completed

Timeline

• Start date: 2002-10-01
• Completion: 2007-10-01
• First posted: 2005-09-02
• Last updated: 2010-03-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States