Phone Call in Type 2 Diabetes Patient

Sponsor

University of Sao Paulo (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT00810173

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Arms

Duration (Months)

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

To assay the influence of personality profile to promote behavior change adherence for physical activity using a pedometer. The investigators also studied the metabolic profile, diagnosis of depression, intention to change behavior, physical activity referred and the quality of life. Casuistic and Methods: a randomized "quasi-experimental" enrolling 48 T2DM patients using a pedometer for 6 weeks. The intervention group received phone calls stimulating them to increase their walking activity. The control group received only one telephone call to explain pedometer use. The investigators also analyzed the personality profile, quality of life, and metabolic and anthropometric indexes.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Behavior Change	Behavioral: phone call support	N/A

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Actual Enrollment :

48 participants

Allocation:

Randomized

Intervention Model:

Parallel Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Supportive Care

Official Title:

Phone Call as an Intervention for Improving Walking Practice in Type 2 Diabetes: Influence of Personality Profile in This Response

Study Start Date :

Jan 1, 2008

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Oct 1, 2008

Actual Study Completion Date :

Oct 1, 2008

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: 1 This group received call phone support to incentive the increase of the number of steps during 6 weeks	Behavioral: phone call support The intervention group received a phone call support for 6 weeks to incentive to increase the number of steps/day. Other Names: couselling to behavior change
No Intervention: 2 This group just received a pedometer to register the number of steps for 6 weeks but this group don´t received a phone call.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Experimental: 1

This group received call phone support to incentive the increase of the number of steps during 6 weeks

Behavioral: phone call support

The intervention group received a phone call support for 6 weeks to incentive to increase the number of steps/day.

Other Names:

couselling to behavior change

No Intervention: 2

This group just received a pedometer to register the number of steps for 6 weeks but this group don´t received a phone call.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

40 Years and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Inclusion Criteria:

to assign written informed consent
to have a phone call number
to agree to use a pedometer for 6 weeks to be able to write the data concerning their number of steps per day