NCT06049225

Medical Nutrition Therapy and Diabetes Self-Management Education for People With Disabilities

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this project is to develop, and pilot test an accessible and inclusive medical nutrition therapy and diabetes self-management education program for people with Type 2 Diabetes and physical disabilities.

Detailed description

This study will use a three-arm randomized control trial design. Eligible and consented participants will be assigned to one of three groups: (1) intervention with high-tech support, (2) intervention with low-tech support, and (3) attention-control group. The active intervention period will include six months of weekly health coaching calls and technology access. The low-tech support group will receive six months of weekly coaching calls and weekly email containing related materials in PDF format but no video and technology content.

Conditions

• Type 2 Diabetes
• Physical Disability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	High-Tech	Access to technological platform and weekly health coaching
BEHAVIORAL	Low-Tech	Weekly email with educational content and weekly health coaching
BEHAVIORAL	Attention Control	No technology access or health coaching

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-06-01
• Primary completion: 2025-07-31
• Completion: 2025-09-01
• First posted: 2023-09-22
• Last updated: 2025-12-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States