NCT03482674

DIMINI - Diabetes Mellitus? - Not me!

DIMINI - Activating of Health Literacy in Persons With an Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Coaching at General Practitioners

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 530 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Dimini Konsortium · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus is a worldwide problem. In preventing risk factors and unhealthy lifestyle through improved health literacy, chances are seen to delay or even avoid type 2 diabetes mellitus. The aim of the DIMINI-project is to prevent type 2 diabetes mellitus and to strengthen the health literacy of people at increased risk of developing it. For this purpose, people at increased risk are first identified by using the standardized screening tool Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) adapted for Germany. Identified risk persons then receive a needs-based, modular lifestyle intervention including nutrition tips and physical exercises either paper- or app-based.

Detailed description

DIMINI, a randomised controlled trial, will assess whether the implementation of a lifestyle intervention for people at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus will result in an improvement in body weight (primary outcome) and participants health literacy (secondary outcome) or not. A three-month intervention in the intervention group is followed by a one-year follow-up. The control group receives standard care as provided by the German statutory health insurance for three months and a one-year follow-up as well.

Conditions

• Health Behavior
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Literacy
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	DIMINI lifestyle intervention	DIMINI lifestyle intervention consists of the DIMINI-kit which contains health information, a list of food recommendations with additional information on calories, serving size and weight (traffic light rating system), a nutrition and an exercise diary. Participants in the intervention group can choose between a paper-based version or an app-based version of the DIMINI-kit. In addition, the kit includes an elastic exercise band with exercise poster, a measuring tape for self-control of the waist size and a pedometer.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-02
• Primary completion: 2020-03-31
• Completion: 2020-07-01
• First posted: 2018-03-29
• Last updated: 2018-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany