Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00810173
Phone Call in Type 2 Diabetes Patient
Phone Call as an Intervention for Improving Walking Practice in Type 2 Diabetes: Influence of Personality Profile in This Response
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 48 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 40 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
To assay the influence of personality profile to promote behavior change adherence for physical activity using a pedometer. The investigators also studied the metabolic profile, diagnosis of depression, intention to change behavior, physical activity referred and the quality of life. Casuistic and Methods: a randomized "quasi-experimental" enrolling 48 T2DM patients using a pedometer for 6 weeks. The intervention group received phone calls stimulating them to increase their walking activity. The control group received only one telephone call to explain pedometer use. The investigators also analyzed the personality profile, quality of life, and metabolic and anthropometric indexes.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | phone call support | The intervention group received a phone call support for 6 weeks to incentive to increase the number of steps/day. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2008-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2008-10-01
- Completion
- 2008-10-01
- First posted
- 2008-12-17
- Last updated
- 2008-12-17
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00810173. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.