NCT03550066

Patients Engaged in Prevention: Enhancing Outreach to Increase Patient Engagement in Diabetes Prevention

A Self-Affirmation Intervention to Enhance Patient Outreach for Health System-based Lifestyle Programs for Diabetes Prevention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kaiser Permanente · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study examines whether a health message that includes a self-affirmation intervention (where people reflect on values that are important to them) increases acceptance of the message and encourages people to take steps to prevent diabetes, as compared to a health message without the self affirmation intervention.

Detailed description

Background: Despite availability of evidence-based programs for diabetes prevention, few strategies exist to promote patients' interest in them. Strategies should be developed for racial/ethnic minority women with a history of gestational diabetes (GDM), who face exceptionally high risk for chronic diabetes. We previously found that a theory-based outreach message containing a streamlined values affirmation-two sentences prompting individuals to reflect on core personal values-increased women's likelihood of demonstrating interest in a preventive program. Extending this work, this pilot trial tests whether the values affirmation outreach message is as acceptable as (non-inferior to) a standard outreach message among African-American and Latina women. Methods: Two-arm, parallel-group, randomized trial among English- and Spanish-speaking minority women with prior GDM and overweight/obesity in a healthcare system. Within an online survey, participants are randomized to read an outreach message promoting an existing preventive program. The message contains either a values affirmation (intervention condition) or no affirmation (control condition).

Conditions

• Preventive Health Services
• Health Communication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Values affirmation	A health message with a prompt asking participants to reflect on important personal values
BEHAVIORAL	No affirmation	A health message alone

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-01
• Primary completion: 2018-07-03
• Completion: 2018-07-03
• First posted: 2018-06-08
• Last updated: 2023-04-27
• Results posted: 2019-08-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States