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Phone Call in Type 2 Diabetes Patient

Not Applicable
Completed
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
Inclusion Criteria
  • 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
Exclusion Criteria
  • 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
GroupInterventionDescription
1phone call supportThis group received call phone support to incentive the increase of the number of steps during 6 weeks
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