Community Health Assessment Program in the Philippines

NCT02479516 | Unknown Phase 1

• 1 other identifier: APP242122
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 45
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The investigators are adopting an intervention which has been tested in Canada to the Philippine setting. The program will be called Community Health Assessment Program in the Philippines (CHAPP). The main goal of CHAPP is to decrease diabetes and its complications by implementing a community-based program. The CHAPP intervention will be modified so that it will be applicable to the Philippine setting and other Low and Middle Income Countries. The initial plan for the program is that trained volunteers or health workers will be running the CHAPP sessions 2-hours a week in a community location for residents in the community. During the CHAPP session, volunteers will administer a questionnaire and do basic measures (assessing the weight, height, blood pressure, waist measurement). The questions can be entered into a laptop/tablet/cell-phone or written into a paper questionnaire depending on the abilities of the volunteer to use computers. Based on the data gathered, the volunteers will identify residents who have a high risk of developing diabetes (including long term complications of diabetes such as hypertension), educate them regarding what to do to avoid having diabetes (by doing exercise, improving their diet, and avoiding unhealthy lifestyle), and refer them to local health care when needed. Residents who have high risk of developing diabetes will be referred to have their blood sugar checked. Residents who have diabetes or complications of diabetes will be checked to see if they are being treated properly; if not they will be referred to the local doctor for treatment and medication. All the information regarding the CHAPP sessions will be sent to the Local Public Health Office or other designated local health centre so that they will be able to educate, monitor, and attend to residents who have diabetes or who have high risk of developing diabetes.

Conditions

Diabetes

Keywords

Diabetes screening; Health Promotion; Low and Middle Income Countries; CHAP

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Elevated HBA1c

  6 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Blood Pressure

  6 months

Other Outcomes (1)

• Health Behaviour questionnaire

  6 months

Study Arms (2)

CHAPP intervention communities

EXPERIMENTAL

CHAPP intervention: The proposed CHAPP intervention will include: * Diabetes risk assessment (modified FINRISK and assessment of lifestyle risk behaviours) sessions be at least every 2 weeks in accessible community locations, manned by trained volunteers of LLO * Volunteers educate CHAPP participants regarding their diabetes risk factors and ways to practice healthy lifestyle (including referral to local resources/activities) using diabetes education materials adapted for local context * Use of an accepted process have participant data transmitted to a central web database system through a combination of cell-phone and computer-based technology * Have participant assessment result forwarded to the Municipal Health Officer (doctor) for follow-up and screening

Behavioral: Community Health Assessment Program Philippines (CHAP-P)

Delayed Intervention communities

NO INTERVENTION

Interventions

Community Health Assessment Program Philippines (CHAP-P) BEHAVIORAL

CHAPP intervention communities

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 40 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Resident of the intervention community

Sponsors & Collaborators

• McMaster University: lead
• Ateneo de Zamboanga University: collaborator

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MeSH Terms

Conditions

Diabetes Mellitus

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Glucose Metabolism Disorders; Metabolic Diseases; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Endocrine System Diseases

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 1
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 28, 2015
• First Posted: June 24, 2015
• Study Start: November 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2017
• Study Completion: October 1, 2017
• Last Updated: June 24, 2015

Record last verified: 2015-06