NCT03861546

Developing a Lifestyle Intervention for South Asians

Better Together: Leveraging Primary Care and Social Network Resources to Create a Patient-centered Approach to Improve Diabetes Among South Asians

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 14 (actual)
• Sponsor: Emory University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to test the hypothesis that a culturally tailored lifestyle intervention can improve health behaviors among South Asians with prediabetes and diabetes

Detailed description

This pre-post pilot study is a 16 week lifestyle program for South Asians with prediabetes or diabetes in Atlanta. Patients will participate in physician-led group visits every other week focused on improving dietary and exercise practices to reduce weight.

Conditions

• Behavior, Health
• Pre Diabetes
• Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy lifestyle Shared Medical Appointment (SMA) program	Social network-based, culturally-tailored healthy lifestyle SMA program for high risk SAs will be piloted to collect pre-post data on diet and exercise habits, and to determine feasibility and acceptability. Patients will participate in physician-led group visits every other week focused on improving dietary and exercise practices to reduce weight. Biometric measurements (weight, height, blood pressure) will be collected, point of care glucose and lipid testing will be done.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-03-03
• Primary completion: 2019-06-23
• Completion: 2019-06-23
• First posted: 2019-03-04
• Last updated: 2019-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States