Behavioral Activation Therapy for Rural Veterans With Diabetes and Depression
NCT ID: NCT01572389
Last Updated: 2017-11-01
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COMPLETED
NA
225 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2012-11-01
2016-09-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Project Objectives: Specific (Primary) Aim (1): Compare the effectiveness of the Healthy Outcomes through Patient Empowerment (HOPE) intervention to enhanced usual care (EUC) at 6 and 12 month follow-up.
Hypothesis 1a: After 6 months (active treatment phase), HOPE will produce greater improvements in diabetes control (measured by hemoglobin A1c levels) and depression (measured by PHQ-9 scores) than will EUC.
Hypothesis 1b: At 12 months (6-month active phase plus 6-month maintenance phase), HOPE participants will continue to evidence significant greater improvements in HbA1c and PHQ-9 compared with EUC participants.
Exploratory Specific Aim (2): To examine the role of moderators and mediators on intervention effectiveness Exploratory Aim 2a. To evaluate factors that mediate or moderate effectiveness at 6 and 12 months for all enrolled patients (regardless of intervention group assignment). Potential mediating and moderating variables include patient-level (clinical factors-diabetes distress and self-efficacy and sociodemographics) and facility-level factors (availability of medical and mental health services by clinical site).
Exploratory Aim 2b. To evaluate factors that mediate or moderate effectiveness at 6 and 12 months for patients enrolled in the HOPE intervention arm. Intervention factors include adherence (e.g. session attendance), fidelity (ratings of coach effectiveness), and treatment implementation (e.g., goal setting quality and self-management behaviors) as well as any significant predictors obtained from Aim 1a.
Exploratory Specific Aim (3): Evaluate the potential for embedding the HOPE intervention processes within a VA CBOC using the REAIM framework for evaluating effectiveness of behavioral interventions.
Exploratory Aim 3a - Reach. Compare clinical and demographic characteristics of enrolled study participants with the characteristics of all potentially eligible patients at each CBOC.
Exploratory Aim 3b - Adoption. Qualitatively elicit clinicians' perceptions of behavioral coaches, patients' use of action plans, and responses to coaches' recommendations in preparation for future implementation
Project Methods: The proposed study is a randomized controlled trial enrolling 242 largely rural Veterans with uncontrolled diabetes and clinically-significant depressive symptoms. Both groups will receive screening, education, and notification of clinical findings along with follow-up in usual primary care. HOPE participants will also receive 6 behavioral coaching telephone sessions and 3 booster sessions over a six month period. Coaches will use a standardized, theory-based process for conducting the sessions with the aim of creating patient-centered and articulated goals and behavioral action plans. Participants' primary care providers will be notified about session discussions and the resultant goals and action plans. Both groups will receive only usual primary care during the subsequent 6 months maintenance period. Hemoglobin A1c and PHQ-9 measurements along with self-report questionnaires will also be collected at baseline, 6 and 12 months follow-up. Changes in measurements from baseline will be compared between groups. Analytic evaluations of intervention mediators/moderators and implementation will also be conducted at 6 and 12 months follow-up.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
NONE
Study Groups
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Arm 1: HOPE
The Healthy Outcomes through Patient Empowerment (HOPE) intervention group is the intervention arm which will employ behavioral health coaching telephone sessions. Tele-coaching is a theoretically grounded, structured processes guided by intervention manuals.
Healthy Outcomes through Patient Empowerment (HOPE)
HOPE participants will receive 6 behavioral coaching telephone sessions and 3 booster sessions over a six month period followed by usual primary care during the subsequent 6 months maintenance period.
Arm 2: EUC
The Enhanced Usual Care (EUC) group will serve as a concurrent control group to compare to the intervention arm of the study. Participants are screened for diabetes self-management behaviors and control and for active depressive and anxiety symptoms. Primary care providers are alerted of the patients' status and given decision support to enhance care for these uncontrolled conditions.
Enhanced Usual Care
All participants receive usual VA primary care plus a dedicated screening for diabetes control and clinically significant depressive symptoms. Patients and primary care providers are notified of these results and given recommendations for usual care.
Interventions
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Healthy Outcomes through Patient Empowerment (HOPE)
HOPE participants will receive 6 behavioral coaching telephone sessions and 3 booster sessions over a six month period followed by usual primary care during the subsequent 6 months maintenance period.
Enhanced Usual Care
All participants receive usual VA primary care plus a dedicated screening for diabetes control and clinically significant depressive symptoms. Patients and primary care providers are notified of these results and given recommendations for usual care.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* as well as MEDVAMC patients living \>20 miles from the hospital who face similar distance related treatment barriers
Participants must have:
* a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus
* an average HbA1c level \>7.5% in the prior 6 months
* clinically significant symptoms of depression
* Verification of diabetes mellitus diagnoses will be based on data collected from the VA data warehouse.
* To verify that participants meet the depression criteria, the investigators will use participant self-report of clinically significant depressive symptoms according to the PHQ-9, where a score of greater than/equal to 10 on the PHQ-9 will signify a clinically meaningful symptom burden.
Exclusion Criteria
* lack of regular access to a telephone
* significant cognitive impairment (three or more errors) on an established six-item screening exam
* meeting criteria for bipolar, psychotic, or substance-abuse disorders
* presence of uncorrected hearing or vision impairment
* their medical chart recommends not titrating therapy due to prior history of significant hypoglycemic events
* they live within 20 miles of the MEDVAMC.
* Patients will be secondarily excluded if their HbA1C level falls below 7.5% at baseline assessment, or if they report suicidal ideation on the PHQ-9 at baseline assessment.
* Patients receiving mental health services at the time of study recruitment will not be excluded.
* All mental health treatments and health service-use characteristics will be included in study analyses as covariates.
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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VA Office of Research and Development
FED
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Aanand D Naik, MD BA
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
Jeffrey Cully, PhD MEd
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
Locations
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Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
Houston, Texas, United States
Countries
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References
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Martin CE, Renn BN, Winderman KE, Hundt N, Petersen NJ, Naik AD, Cully JA. Classifying diabetes-burden: A factor analysis of the Problem Areas in Diabetes Scale. J Health Psychol. 2018 May;23(6):882-888. doi: 10.1177/1359105316678667. Epub 2016 Nov 21.
Tinetti ME, Naik AD, Dodson JA. Moving From Disease-Centered to Patient Goals-Directed Care for Patients With Multiple Chronic Conditions: Patient Value-Based Care. JAMA Cardiol. 2016 Apr 1;1(1):9-10. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2015.0248. No abstract available.
Naik AD, Lawrence B, Kiefer L, Ramos K, Utech A, Masozera N, Rao R, Petersen NJ, Kunik ME, Cully JA. Building a primary care/research partnership: lessons learned from a telehealth intervention for diabetes and depression. Fam Pract. 2015 Apr;32(2):216-23. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmu084. Epub 2014 Dec 31.
Cully JA, Breland JY, Robertson S, Utech AE, Hundt N, Kunik ME, Petersen NJ, Masozera N, Rao R, Naik AD. Behavioral health coaching for rural veterans with diabetes and depression: a patient randomized effectiveness implementation trial. BMC Health Serv Res. 2014 Apr 28;14:191. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-191.
Naik AD, White CD, Robertson SM, Armento ME, Lawrence B, Stelljes LA, Cully JA. Behavioral health coaching for rural-living older adults with diabetes and depression: an open pilot of the HOPE Study. BMC Geriatr. 2012 Jul 24;12:37. doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-12-37.
Vaughan EM, Cully JA, Petersen NJ, Hundt NE, Kunik ME, Zeno DD, Naik AD. Testing the Impact of a Collaborative, Goal-Setting, and Behavioral Telehealth Intervention on Diabetes Distress: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Telemed J E Health. 2022 Jan;28(1):84-92. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2020.0533. Epub 2021 Mar 15.
Naik AD, Hundt NE, Vaughan EM, Petersen NJ, Zeno D, Kunik ME, Cully JA. Effect of Telephone-Delivered Collaborative Goal Setting and Behavioral Activation vs Enhanced Usual Care for Depression Among Adults With Uncontrolled Diabetes: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Aug 2;2(8):e198634. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.8634.
Other Identifiers
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IIR 10-135
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id