Phone Call in Type 2 Diabetes Patient

NCT00810173 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Fonseca-Guedes
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 48
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

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.

Conditions

Behavior Change

Keywords

type 2 diabetes; physical activity; behavior change; profile personality; phone call support

Study Arms (2)

1

EXPERIMENTAL

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

Behavioral: phone call support

2

NO INTERVENTION

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

Interventions

phone call support BEHAVIORAL

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

Also known as: couselling to behavior change

1

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 40 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• 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

You may not qualify if:

• don´t agree to assign written informed consent
• don´t have phone number
• don´t have conditions to answer all the questionnaire
• don´t agree to use pedometer for 6 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Sao Paulo: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Diabetes Mellitus; Glucose Metabolism Disorders; Metabolic Diseases; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Endocrine System Diseases; Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 16, 2008
• First Posted: December 17, 2008
• Study Start: January 1, 2008
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2008
• Study Completion: October 1, 2008
• Last Updated: December 17, 2008

Record last verified: 2008-12