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CompletedNCT01310491

RENEWING HEALTH - RegioNs of Europe WorkINg Together for HEALTH

RENEWING HEALTH Large-scale Real-life Study in Finland

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
595 (actual)
Sponsor
South Karelia, Social and Health Care District · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this trial is to determine if by structured telephone based health coaching programme supported by remote monitoring system among type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease and heart failure patients the investigators are able to improve their quality of life as measured by the SF-36 questionnaire and reduce a value of HbA1c under 6,5 % among those type 2 diabetes patients who had elevated value of HbA1c when recruited.

Detailed description

RENEWING HEALTH is a project covering 9 different European States. It aims at evaluation of innovative telemedicine services using a patient-centred approach and a common rigorous assessment methodology. In 9 European regions in the implementation of health-related information and communication technologies service solutions are already operational at local level for the remote monitoring and the treatment of chronic patients suffering from diabetes,chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or cardiovascular diseases. The services are designed to give patients a central role in the management of their own diseases, fine-tuning the choice and dosage of medications, promoting compliance to treatment, and helping health care professionals to detect early signs of worsening in the monitored pathologies. Every area will designed its own real-life trial with certain common elements.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
BEHAVIORALHealth coachingTelephone based health coaching supported by tele-monitoring.

Timeline

Start date
2011-02-01
Primary completion
2012-12-01
Completion
2012-12-01
First posted
2011-03-08
Last updated
2014-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01310491. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.