NCT02082704

Interactive Spaced Education to Optimize Diabetes Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 456 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Investigators are conducting a randomized controlled trial to determine whether an online team-based spaced education (SE) game can improve HbA1c levels among these patients with diabetes (primary aim). Secondary aims include determining the impact of the game on patients' pill possession ratio (PPR) of oral DM meds and their microalbumin/creatinine (M/C) ratio, ACE PPR, and ARB PPR.

Detailed description

Participants will be randomized to one of two cohorts: (1) the intervention cohort will participate in an online team-based game on diabetes self-management education (DSME) and will receive a paper documents on American history, and (2) the 'attention control' cohort will participate in an online team-based game on American history and will receive a paper documents on DSME. Each game would consist of 2 questions per week x 25 weeks = 50 questions total per arm. The questions are delivered via email by the Qstream platform to the participants. Upon clicking on a hyperlink in the email, participants select an answer that is downloaded to a server. They are then provided with the answer to and explanation of the question, along with additional educational materials. Using an adaptive methodology, the spacing and content of the game material will be individualized for each clinician based on their performance. Home-based testing of HbA1c and M/C ratio will be conducted by patients at enrollment, 6 months and 12 months. If successful, this SE game will improve diabetes management among VA patients and improve patient outcomes. Given the growing use of email and the Internet by patients, SE games could be easily expanded to a broad audience of VA patients with varying health problems across the country. With content tailored to meet specific needs, SE games can be utilized as tools to improve patients' clinical outcomes by bolstering their health management behaviors.

Conditions

• Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SE Game on DSME	Investigators created an online educational game by incorporating game mechanics into an evidence-based form of online education, termed 'spaced education' (SE). Based upon two psychology research findings (the spacing and testing effects), SE has been shown in randomized trials to improves knowledge acquisition, boosts learning retention for up to two years, and durably improves clinical behavior.
BEHAVIORAL	SE Game on American History	Investigators created an online educational game by incorporating game mechanics into an evidence-based form of online education, termed 'spaced education' (SE). Based upon two psychology research findings (the spacing and testing effects), SE has been shown in randomized trials to improves knowledge acquisition, boosts learning retention for up to two years, and durably improves clinical behavior.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-06-01
• Primary completion: 2015-08-01
• Completion: 2016-11-01
• First posted: 2014-03-10
• Last updated: 2017-07-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States