NCT05905575

A Family Dyad-focused Diabetes Self-Management Intervention for African American Adults

A Family Dyad-focused Diabetes Self-Management Intervention for African American Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 208 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ohio State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A family dyad-focused diabetes self-management for African American adults with type 2 diabetes is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that aims to test the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of a family-dyad focused intervention on glycemic control (hemoglobin A1c) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in African American adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Detailed description

Eligible participants and their family members will be randomly assigned to either the intervention and control group. Patient-family-member dyads in the intervention arm will virtually receive 1) 10 session over 12 weeks of family dyad-focused, group sessions on diabetes self-management and family support; 2) family dyad-focused support component in each group session; and 3) individual family feedback telephone sessions. All participants will be assessed at baseline, post-intervention and six months after intervention.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family dyad diabetes intervention	The goals of the intervention are to encourage participants to (1) daily self-manage diabetes and stress; (2) establish a healthy eating pattern; (3) engage in brisk walking of 150 or more minutes a week; and (4) use solution-focused problem-solving strategy and supportive family communication skills.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-01
• Primary completion: 2027-01-31
• Completion: 2027-01-31
• First posted: 2023-06-15
• Last updated: 2026-03-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States