Using Patient Feedback to Improve Communication Regarding Glycemic Control to Patients With Diabetes

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Conditions studied: Diabetes

In brief

In this two-phase mixed methods study, the investigators will first use patient feedback from semi-structured interviews to explore the ways in which patients with diabetes understand their diabetes and assess their disease control. The investigators will also use these interviews to elicit patient feedback on promising alternative communication formats to the hemoglobin A1C (A1C). In the second phase of the study, the investigators will test new formats to communicate information regarding diabetes control to patients with poorly controlled diabetes. This phase will be a three arm RCT comparing the effect of A1C (standard medical information) versus two alternative formats on several participant outcomes, primarily glycemic control at 6 months post-intervention.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01886170

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

200

Starts

2013-10-01

Expected to finish

2015-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-09-23

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Adults who report a diagnosis of diabetes

You may not qualify if…

• People without diabetes
• For Phase II:
• Inclusion Criteria
• Adults seen at University of Pennsylvania primary care practice with a diagnosis of diabetes documented in the electronic health record and a recent hemoglobin A1C >8 %
• Exclusion
• No diabetes
• No A1C or recent A1C <8%

Where it is running

• University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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