sing telephone and text-messaging to improve an integrated cardiac and diabetes self-management program: A cross cultural international collaborative project
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Cardiovascular - Coronary heart diseaseThe efficacy of a Cardiac-Diabetes Self-Management ProgramCardiovascular/Coronary heart disease
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12611001196932
- Lead Sponsor
- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 182
Inclusion Criteria
Participants who will be included: males and females aged over 18 years who have given their consent to participate in the study, have had type 2 diabetes for at least one year and have experienced a cardiac event and have been admitted to acute care hospital in Australia and Taiwan (participated study sites), can read and converse in English, are physically stabilised, have a mobile phone.
Exclusion Criteria
Potential participants will be excluded if they are: critically ill, unconscious, on respiratory ventilation, stay in hospital less than 48 hours or greater than 14 days, are discharged to nursing home.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary outcome 1: Self-efficacy, as assessed by 'Diabetes Self-Efficacy Questionnaire' (Australian-English version) and Chinese versions.[Baseline and at 4 weeks following discharge];Primary outcome 2: self-care behaviour, as assessed by 'Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities (SDSCA)' English and Chinese versions[Baseline and at 4 weeks following discharge];Primary outcome 3: quality of life, as assessed by 'The World Health Organisation Quality of Life (WHOQOL)-BREF' English and Chinese versions[Baseline and at 4 weeks following discharge]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method readmission rate using hospital records.[readmitted to hospital within 1 month of discharge from hospital]