A Practice-nurse Addressed Intervention to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Care

NCT ID: NCT01187069

Last Updated: 2012-08-20

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

40 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-08-31

Study Completion Date

2011-09-30

Brief Summary

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A huge challenge in type 2-diabetes care is how to motivate patients towards health behaviour changes. In Denmark, the tendency is that nurses in general practice provide a large part of type 2 diabetes care.

Observational studies support Self-determination Theory by finding autonomous motivation and perceived competence associated with improved HbA1c-levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. Hence, research is needed to develop and test interventions that are autonomy supportive.

Aim To develop a training course for practice-nurses in autonomy support in patients with type 2 diabetes, and to evaluate the effect on patient outcomes.

Methods The development of the intervention was based on literature research and expert meetings. The intervention is evaluated in a cluster randomised controlled trial with 40 Danish general practices,

* where nurses, before enrolment in the study, provided consultations to patients with type 2 diabetes,
* and about 2500 patients with type 2 diabetes, identified in a Diabetes Database.

The patients will be followed 15 months from nurse-participation in the course. Data will be obtained from registers and patient-questionnaires. The hypothesis is that patients with type 2 diabetes regardless of education level, age, and gender will benefit from the intervention.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Type 2 Diabetes

Keywords

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Motivation patients with type 2 diabetes practice nurses general practice Self-determination Theory

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Training course for practice nurses in autonomy support

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Training course for practice nurses in autonomy support

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

An interactive course consisting of 4X4 hours education in autonomy support over a 6 months period. The main-components in the course are 1) communication skills, 2) introduction to patient work-sheets and 3) a quick up-to-date knowledge about treatment recommendations of type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, the nurses in the intervention-practices receive a half an hour support-visit 4-5 months after the end of the course.

Control

Control practices were randomly drawn from among intervention practice applicants and were informed by mail about their status as control practice.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Training course for practice nurses in autonomy support

An interactive course consisting of 4X4 hours education in autonomy support over a 6 months period. The main-components in the course are 1) communication skills, 2) introduction to patient work-sheets and 3) a quick up-to-date knowledge about treatment recommendations of type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, the nurses in the intervention-practices receive a half an hour support-visit 4-5 months after the end of the course.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* The intervention-study comprises 40 general practices were:

1. more than 50% of the patients with type 2 diabetes, who had participated in diabetes-consultations during the last year from the invitation-date to the project, were seen by a nurse at least once, stated by the practice. The diabetes-consultation should not only include examinations (blood tests and blood pressure measurement), but should also include communication about living with type 2 diabetes ;
2. enrollment in the project before registration deadline (three weeks after invitation).

Patients with diabetes, alive and affiliated the practices by May 2011, were identified in a a validated diabetes database based on health registers; The national Patient Registry, The national Health Insurance Service registry, the prescription database and the laboratory database in the county.
Minimum Eligible Age

40 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

74 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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TrygFonden, Denmark

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Sygekassernes Helsefond

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Lundbeck Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Aarhus

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Department of General Practice, School of Public Health, Aarhus University

Aarhus, , Denmark

Site Status

Countries

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Denmark

References

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Juul L, Maindal HT, Zoffmann V, Frydenberg M, Sandbaek A. Effectiveness of a training course for general practice nurses in motivation support in type 2 diabetes care: a cluster-randomised trial. PLoS One. 2014 May 5;9(5):e96683. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096683. eCollection 2014.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 24798419 (View on PubMed)

Juul L, Maindal HT, Zoffmann V, Frydenberg M, Sandbaek A. A cluster randomised pragmatic trial applying Self-determination theory to type 2 diabetes care in general practice. BMC Fam Pract. 2011 Nov 24;12:130. doi: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-130.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 22111524 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2009-41-3065

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id