NCT04737499

Culturally Appropriate Strategies for Chinese Americans With Diabetes (CASCADe)

Implementation and Evaluation of A Culturally Tailored Diabetes Self-Management Program for Chinese Americans

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 14 (actual)
• Sponsor: Claremont Graduate University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The project aimed to evaluate the implementation process and efficacy of a culturally tailored Diabetes Self-Management and Education (DSME) program with mobile health (mHealth) technology integration, entitled Culturally Appropriate Strategies for Chinese Americans with Diabetes (CASCADe), among Chinese American adults with Type 2 diabetes.

Detailed description

The CASCADe program includes 1) a home visit for training of monitoring devices use, WeChat app and acquiring family support, 2) 8 weekly education sessions with a combined format of group class, games, food demonstration, group exercise, video and discussion, 3) WeChat follow-up on education tips, monitoring data summary, and group discussion. The monitoring system used a smartphone to coordinate cloud data transmission from a set of wireless devices to capture daily monitoring data on physical activity, body weight, blood pressure and blood glucose levels. WeChat app was used to facilitate behavioral self-monitoring by providing daily messages related to diabetes education curriculum, weekly summary reports on monitoring data as well as reinforcement messages and group discussion on readings and monitoring results implication. A single group pre-post-test design was adopted to evaluate changes of primary (HbA1c) and secondary (Self-efficacy, quality of life and stress coping) outcomes assessed at pre and post of intervention. Engagement and adherence in education sessions and self-monitoring system, and satisfaction with the content and delivery of intervention were also evaluated at the end of the study.

Conditions

• Type 2 Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	CASCADe	Culturally tailored diabetes self-management and education sessions with mHealth integration

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-05
• Primary completion: 2018-02-15
• Completion: 2018-03-20
• First posted: 2021-02-04
• Last updated: 2021-02-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States