Understanding and Improving Diabetes Care for Ethnic Minorities

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Conditions studied: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

In brief

In this study, we are testing the effectiveness of an intervention known as "Coached Care" to improve health outcomes and quality of care of patients being treated for type 2 diabetes, particularly patients in underserved populations. The intervention involves training members of minority communities who have diabetes to be "coaches", teaching minority patients the skills needed to participate effectively in care during office visits, as they present for those visits. Coaches follow patients for 9 routine consecutive visits, reinforcing participation skills before and between their routine office visits.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01123239

Run by

University of California, Irvine

People needed

540

Starts

2006-01-01

Expected to finish

2013-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-05-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
• At least one Hemoglobin A1c value greater than 7.5% in the year prior to recruitment.

You may not qualify if…

• Age above 80 years
• patients with dementia or other serious mental health problems that would prevent them from participating in the intervention.
• patients with other serious medical problems that would prevent them from participating in the intervention.

Where it is running

• Mary and Dick Allen Diabetes Center at Hoag Hospital — Newport Beach, California, United States
• University of California Irvine Medical Center — Orange, California, United States
• Westminster Medical Center — Westminster, California, United States

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