Phone Call in Type 2 Diabetes Patient
- Conditions
- Behavior Change
- Interventions
- Behavioral: phone call support
- Registration Number
- NCT00810173
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
- Brief Summary
To assay the influence of personality profile to promote behavior change adherence for physical activity using a pedometer. The investigators also studied the metabolic profile, diagnosis of depression, intention to change behavior, physical activity referred and the quality of life. Casuistic and Methods: a randomized "quasi-experimental" enrolling 48 T2DM patients using a pedometer for 6 weeks. The intervention group received phone calls stimulating them to increase their walking activity. The control group received only one telephone call to explain pedometer use. The investigators also analyzed the personality profile, quality of life, and metabolic and anthropometric indexes.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 48
- to assign written informed consent
- to have a phone call number
- to agree to use a pedometer for 6 weeks to be able to write the data concerning their number of steps per day
- don´t agree to assign written informed consent
- don´t have phone number
- don´t have conditions to answer all the questionnaire
- don´t agree to use pedometer for 6 weeks
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description 1 phone call support This group received call phone support to incentive the increase of the number of steps during 6 weeks
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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