Racial/Ethnic Differences in Trust/Mistrust and Its Effect on Diabetes Outcomes

Completed

Conditions studied: Diabetes

In brief

1. Determine racial/ethnic differences in trust in physicians and mistrust of the health care system among veterans with Type 2 Diabetes. 2. Determine the predictive power of trust in physicians and mistrust of the health care system on personal health practices and health outcomes in a prospective cohort of veterans with Type 2 Diabetes

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00383110

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

300

Starts

2004-11-01

Expected to finish

2009-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients for this study will be recruited from the Ralph H. Johnson VAMC in Charleston, South Carolina.
• American veterans aged 18 years and older with Type 2 Diabetes will be recruited.

You may not qualify if…

• Children will not be included as this study pertains to type 2 diabetes, which is not a disease of children.
• Non-English speaking patients are excluded to eliminate bias in the response to questionnaires because these questionnaires have only been validated in English speaking patients.
• We decided to exclude cognitively impaired individuals because of the complexity of the survey instruments.

Where it is running

• Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC — Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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