Shared Decision Making Between Patients and GPs in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care.

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

153 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-03-31

Study Completion Date

2016-02-29

Brief Summary

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Background: Less than 20% of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients in different healthcare settings achieve all treatment goals to prevent cardiometabolic disease. A more personalised approach with shared decision making should increase that percentage. Because the ADDITION-Europe study demonstrated two (almost) equally effective treatments but with slightly different intensities, it may be a good starting point to discuss with the patients their diabetes treatment, taking into account both the intensity of treatment, clinical factors and patients' preferences. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether such an approach increases the proportion of treatment goals that T2DM patients achieve.

Methods: In a cluster-randomised trial in 40 primary care practices that participated until 2009 in the ADDITION Study, 150 T2DM patients 60 - 80 years, known with T2DM for 8-15 years, will be included. Practices are randomised a second time, i.e. intervention practices in the ADDITION study could be control practices in the current study and vice versa. For the GPs from the intervention group a 2-hour training in shared decision making (SDM) was developed as well as a decision support tool to use during the consultation. These GPs plan the first visit with the patients to decide on the intensity of the treatment, personalised targets and the priorities of treatment. The control group will continue with the treatment they were allocated to in the ADDITION study (treatment-as-before). Follow-up: 24 months. The primary outcome is the proportion of patients who achieve all three treatment goals (HbA1c, blood pressure, total cholesterol) at 24 months. Secondary outcomes are the proportion of patients who achieve five treatment goals (HbA1c, blood pressure, total cholesterol , body weight, not smoking), evaluation of the SDM process (SDM-Q9), satisfaction with the treatment (DTSQ), wellbeing and quality of life (W-BQ12, ADD QoL-19), health status (SF-36, EQ-5D) and coping (DCMQ). The proportions of achieved treatment goals will be compared between groups by estimating the relative risk of meeting the treatment targets. For the secondary outcomes mixed models will be used.

Discussion: To achieve optimal diabetes care with a higher proportion of achieved individualised treatment goals, the SDM approach including a multi-faceted decision support tool might be useful. An intervention with such a support decision tool is designed.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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shared decision making

In the intervention practices the SDM process is used. In the SDM proces the patient and GP use a decision aid to discuss the pros and cons of two evidence based treatment possibilities, according to the Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG) versus the ADDITION guideline, and the patients' preferences for either of these treatments. Together they choose one of these treatments, and set the five treatment targets (blood pressure, cholesterol, HbA1c, smoking status and weight) in order of priority. Subsequent treatment will take place according to the priorities of these OPTIMAL treatment targets. The priorities will be evaluated every 12 months.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Shared decision making

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

In the intervention practices the SDM process is used. In the SDM proces the patient and GP use a decision aid to discuss the pros and cons of two evidence based treatment possibilities, according to the Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG) versus the ADDITION guideline, and the patients' preferences for either of these treatments. Together they choose one of these treatments, and set the five treatment targets (blood pressure, cholesterol, HbA1c, smoking status and weight) in order of priority. Subsequent treatment will take place according to the priorities of these OPTIMAL treatment targets. The priorities will be evaluated every 12 months.

control group

Patients in the control practices will receive treatment-as-before, which means that the patients will not be offered the structured SDM process. So the GP will treat the former ADDITION patients as they were used during the period that followed after the ADDITION study (2009), either according to the national guidelines or to the ADDITION intensive treatment algorithm.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Shared decision making

In the intervention practices the SDM process is used. In the SDM proces the patient and GP use a decision aid to discuss the pros and cons of two evidence based treatment possibilities, according to the Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG) versus the ADDITION guideline, and the patients' preferences for either of these treatments. Together they choose one of these treatments, and set the five treatment targets (blood pressure, cholesterol, HbA1c, smoking status and weight) in order of priority. Subsequent treatment will take place according to the priorities of these OPTIMAL treatment targets. The priorities will be evaluated every 12 months.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Two more or less comparable categories of patients are eligible: 1. if diagnosed with T2DM in 2002-2004 by screening, aged between 50-70 years at that time and having participated in the ADDITION-study that ended in 2009; 2. treated for their T2DM in a practice that participated in the ADDITION study, between 60 and 80 years in 2012-2014 and with a T2DM duration between 8 to 15 years.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients will be excluded if they have a history of alcoholism, drug abuse, psychosis, personality disorder or another emotional, psychological or intellectual problem that is likely to invalidate informed consent, or limit the ability of the individual to comply with the protocol requirements and patients with a limited life expectancy.

Minimum Eligible Age

60 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

80 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No