NCT01486290

Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Diabetes Management in the Elderly: A Cost-effective Intervention Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: Joslin Diabetes Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 69 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to find ways to identify barriers that affect self care in older adult with diabetes and to provide cost effective coping strategies to improve clinical, functional and psychosocial measures.

Detailed description

This is a study to evaluate whether short term focused intervention by a geriatric diabetes team to help overcome barriers to diabetes care in older adults will result in improved clinical, functional, and quality of life measures compared to usual care in a cost effective manner. In addition, we will assess whether the support network formed during intervention by the geriatric diabetes team will empower patients, resulting in long lasting improvement in parameters after intervention is completed.

Conditions

• Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Behavioral	the intervention included developing strategies to help patients cope with their barriers to self care. The intervention were implemented by an office based educator over a six month by phone calls. From six months to twelve months subjects did not have any contact with study staff.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-07-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2011-12-06
• Last updated: 2014-03-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States