Structured Diabetes Self-Management Education and Care Outcomes in Adults liVIng With Type 2 Diabetes in Accra, Ghana
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Active, not recruiting
Summary
- Conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus - Type 2
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentMasking: Single (Care Provider)Masking Description: Persons delivering the intervention are not involved in patient carePrimary Purpose: Supportive Care
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 18 years and 125 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
Protocol summary Background: Health systems in low-income countries are overburdened. Corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a pandemic caused by a novel corona virus, Severe acute respiratory syndrome-corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV2) while diabetes is a long-standing global epidemic. COVID-19 further stre...
Protocol summary Background: Health systems in low-income countries are overburdened. Corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a pandemic caused by a novel corona virus, Severe acute respiratory syndrome-corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV2) while diabetes is a long-standing global epidemic. COVID-19 further stresses the already overburdened health systems and Public Health measures to contain COVID-19 have severely disrupted health service delivery, particularly routine care. Delivery of diabetes specific education has traditionally been tied to routine visits and delivered in-person. COVID-19 will likely continue to influence service delivery beyond the pandemic, thus alternative ways of delivering diabetes specific education is needed. Diabetes self-management education is vital to providing diabetes care. It equips patients with critical knowledge and skills for self-care. Recent edicts to stay home in relation to COVID-19 have further heightened the importance of self-care. Appropriate self-management behaviours are associated with lower levels of diabetes related distress, better quality of life and diabetes outcomes overall. Maintaining tight glycaemic control, early in diabetes is associated with fewer microvascular complications and vice versa. Complications of diabetes are prevalent in low resource settings in Africa; partly because of inadequate knowledge on self-care. Diabetes self-management education which is structured and tailor-made for low resource settings may modify self-care behaviors and result in improved self-care, glycaemic control and quality of life. Aim: To compare structured diabetes self-management education with standard of care among adults living with type 2 diabetes Methods: A prospective parallel-group randomised controlled trial with three months follow-up will be conducted in KBTH Polyclinic/Family Medicine Centre and Weija Gbawe Municipal Hospital, two primary care facilities in Accra. Participants will be individually randomised to standard of care or 6 hours of structured diabetes self-management education (DSME) delivered in person on one day . Each arm will have hundred participants. The standard of care arm will receive unstructured DSME as per existing protocols at each study site. The study population will be adults living with diabetes. The primary outcome, mean glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c ) will be measured at three months. Expected outcomes: It is expected that there will be no difference in change in mean glycaemic control, self-efficacy or quality of life at three months between the two arms.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT04780425
- Collaborators
- University of Leicester
- Utrecht University
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Roberta Lamptey, FWACP; MSc Korle Bu Teaching Hospital