A pilot randomised trial in primary care to investigate and improve knowledge, awareness and self-management among South Asians with diabetes in Manchester

Completed

Conditions: Peripheral arterial disease
Diabetes
Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine
Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

Registration Number: ISRCTN52142474

Lead Sponsor: Record Provided by the NHS R&D 'Time-Limited' National Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 547

Inclusion Criteria

The research was undertaken in 7 general practices, in a part of Manchester with a high proportion of ethnic minority groups in their catchment areas.
Subjects aged 25-79 were selected from age-sex registers. Ethnicity was defined from grandparental origins. The final sample comprised 547 people of White European (WE) origin, 479 of African-Caribbean (AfC) origin, and 100 of Pakistani Muslim (PM) origin.
Of the initial sample 27% were no longer at the recorded address, and 16% were no longer in the practice. During the 4 years of the study 42% of people in the final sample changed address.
The random sample in the intervention study comprised 61 people of AfC origin. However 25 declined to take part, and 22 had moved or could not be contacted. The final sample was 8 in the intervention group and 6 in the control group.

Exclusion Criteria

Mental health illness that would preclude compliance

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
In the observational part of the study blood pressure, height, weight, and hip and waist measurements were taken by a trained observer. Subjects were asked about their knowledge of their blood pressure, whether they knew if they had diabetes, about their smoking (ever, current, number of cigarettes daily), their alcohol consumption (>12 units in a year), and details of their diet. <br>In the interventional study weight was recorded on Days 1, 30, 60, and 90, and blood pressure was recorded on Day 1 and Day 90. Information on the 18 foods making up 95% of energy and fat in the diets was obtained at day 1 and 90 for the AfC people in the sample.

Secondary Outcome Measures