Impact:Improving Adherence and Commitment to Treatment

Clalit Health Services1 site in 1 country500 target enrollmentJuly 2014

ConditionsType 2 Diabetes

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes
Sponsor: Clalit Health Services
Enrollment: 500
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: Diabetes Control as Expressed by the Change in HbA1c %
Last Updated: 8 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

In the IMPACT project, the investigators want to improve adherence and commitment to treatment.

Detailed Description

In this study the investigators use 3 interventions in diabetic patients and one control, to find what is the best intervention to improve adherence to healthy life style and medication therapy. the 3 intervention as followed: 1) meetings and follow-up by the medical team; 2) meetings and follow-up by trained peers; 3) system for sending SMS, operate according to algorithm.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

July 2014

End Date

March 2018

Last Updated

8 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Study Design

Parallel

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

Clalit Health Services

Responsible Party

Sponsor

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•type 2 diabetes
•Oral medication or insulin
•According to the HbA1c test result, 0.5% above the target for the patient's personal balance and below the 10%, the most recent, but in any event not more than six months prior to the study patient recruitment
•Patients speak and read Hebrew
•owners of a mobile phone that can receive text messages (SMS messages/ notifications) and have the ability to use the application (relevant for the SMS notification arm)

Exclusion Criteria

•Active malignant disease
•creatinine levels above 2
•Getting medicines that elevate sugar levels as steroids, chemotherapy
•Three months after Myocardial Infraction (myocardial ischemia), surgical intervention, cardiac event
•Patients who are planning major surgery
•Patients who are planning a residential zone change
•Patients with acute complications of diabetes under active treatment (such as limb amputation)
•Patients diagnosed with unbalanced mental disorders
•patients who can not sign the form on their own "informed consent"
•patients suffering from dementia