FAMS Mobile Health Intervention for Diabetes Self-care Support
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
In brief
This study evaluates a family-focused mobile phone-delivered intervention, called FAMS (Family-focused Add-on for Motivating Self-care), in supporting adults with type 2 diabetes in their self-management relative to a control group. The goal of this study is to ascertain if family-focused content delivered to the patient can improve the patients' family support for diabetes self-care, self-efficacy, and adherence to diet and exercise recommendations.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02481596
- Run by
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- People needed
- 512
- Starts
- 2016-05-23
- Expected to finish
- 2018-07-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-11-27
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adults aged 18 years and older
- Individuals who have received a diagnosis for type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Enrolled as a patient at a participating community health center
- Individuals currently being treated with oral and/or injectable diabetes medications
You may not qualify if…
- Non-English speakers
- Individuals who report they do not have a cell phone
- Individuals unwilling and/or not able to provide written informed consent
- Individuals with unintelligible speech (e.g., dysarthria)
- Individuals with a severe hearing or visual impairment
- Individuals who report a caregiver administers their diabetes medications
- Individuals who fail the cognitive screener administered during the baseline survey
- Individuals who cannot receive, read, and respond to a text after instruction from a trained research assistant
- Support persons invited to receive text messages must meet following criteria:
- Support Person Inclusion Criteria:
- Adults aged 18 years and older
- Identified by the patient as a part of their family (can be related biologically or legally, or be a close friend/roommate who participates in the patients' daily routine)
- Support Person Exclusion Criteria:
- Non-English speakers (determined subjectively by a trained research assistant)
- Individuals who report they do not have a cell phone
- Individuals unwilling and/or not able to provide written informed consent
- Individuals with unintelligible speech (e.g., dysarthria) (determined subjectively by a trained research assistant)
- Individuals with a severe hearing or visual impairment (determined subjectively by a trained research assistant)
Where it is running
- Federally Qualified Health Centers & Vanderbilt Primary Care Clinics — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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