NCT03074383

Improvement of Care for Outpatients With Type 2 Diabetes Through Self-Care Multidisciplinary Workshop for Diabetes

Improvement of Care for Outpatients With Type 2 Diabetes at the Porto Alegre Clinic Hospital Through Self-Care Multidisciplinary Workshop for Diabetes: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 96 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Ninety-six patients with diabetes will be randomly assigned to maintain standard treatment or participate in the Self-Care Multidisciplinary Workshop for Diabetes. The workshop consists of individual meetings, with a multidisciplinary team (nurse, pharmacist, nutritionist, physical educator and social worker) in which education and self-care topics will be approached aiming at the formation of knowledge and skills necessary for patient self-care. The workshop will be offered in 3 different modules with 2 to 4 weeks difference between them. The variation of glycated hemoglobin as well as aspects associated with self-care, adherence and quality of life will be evaluated at the study entry, 6 and 12 months later.

Detailed description

Ninety-six patients with type 2 diabetes from our Diabetes Outpatient Clinic will be randomly assigned to maintain standard treatment or participate in the Self-Care Multidisciplinary Workshop for Diabetes. The workshop consists of 15-minute individual meetings with each professional of a multidisciplinary team (nurse, pharmacist, nutritionist, physical educator and social worker) in which education and self-care topics will be approached aiming at the formation of knowledge and skills necessary for patient self-care. The workshop will be offered in 3 different modules with 2 to 4 weeks difference between them. Patients will be followed for 12 months. The variation of glycated hemoglobin as well as aspects associated with self-care, adherence and quality of life will be evaluated at the study entry, 6 and 12 months later.

Conditions

• Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Workshop	A 15-minute Individual meetings with each professional (nurse, pharmacist, nutritionist, physical educator, physiotherapist and social worker) of the multidisciplinary team in which diabetes education and self-care topics will be approached.
BEHAVIORAL	Usual Care	Usual care at outpatient Diabetes clinic AND 3 brief meetings with research team to receive printed educational material.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-20
• Primary completion: 2018-12-31
• Completion: 2019-03-01
• First posted: 2017-03-08
• Last updated: 2020-09-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil