Development and Evaluation of A Peer Support Program for Type 2 Diabetes Patients in Hong Kong as Quality Improvement in Diabetes Care Service
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Enrollment
- 434
- Primary Endpoint
- Glycaemic control
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This is a pre-and-post study with a study duration of one year involving 7 diabetes centres in Hong Kong. A group of motivated patients with type 2 diabetes will be trained as peer supporters in two training workshops. Patients who may benefit from peer support program will be recruited as peers. In the one year study period, peer supporters are required to have 2 face-to-face interviews and 12 phone calls. Clinical parameters and psycho-behavioral parameters of both peer supporters and peers will be evaluated at the baseline and at the end of the study.
Detailed Description
Aim of the Study:
- To evaluate the impact of peer support program on various clinical, psycho-behavioral outcomes and health utilization outcomes in Hong Kong Chinese with type 2 diabetes
- To evaluate the feasibility of a peer support program in Hong Kong
- To evaluate the sustainability of a peer support program in Hong Kong
Duration of the program = 12 months
Indicators and targets:
- Number of peer supporters recruited: 12
- Number of peers recruited = 50
- Number of peer supporter training sessions = 2
- Number of reunion sessions for peer supporters with the investigators = 4
- Minimum number of telephone calls made by peer supporter = 12 for each peer
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Health Services Research
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Type 2 diabetes
- •Age between 18-75 years inclusive
- •Chinese ethnicity
- •High risk patients for poor diabetes control based on the self-administered questionnaire designed by the study team
Exclusion Criteria
- •Exclusion criteria for peer supporters:
- •Failure to have 100% attendance rate in the peer supporters training program
- •Inadequate knowledge about diabetes after training program as judged by study investigators
- •Exclusion criteria for the peers:
- •No access to telephone
- •Unable to speak Cantonese
- •Unable to understand the scope of the project
- •Serious mental or physical disability that prevents one from meeting and communicating regularly with peer supporter
- •Serious medical illness with expected life expectancy < 1 years such as terminal cancer
- •Participation in any diabetes quality improvement program in the past 2 years such as peer support program, Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation Program
Arms & Interventions
Peer supporter
Peer support program
Intervention: Peer support program (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Glycaemic control
Time Frame: 12 months
the HbA1c change at 12 months in peers group
Secondary Outcomes
- Quality of life(12 months)
- Diabetes distress(12 months)
- Body weight(12 months)
- Depressive symptoms(12 months)
Investigators
Rebecca Yee-Man Wong
Clinical Tutor (Honorary)
Chinese University of Hong Kong