None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The purpose of this study was to 1) To revise and translate an integrated Cardiac-Diabetes Self-Management Program (CDSMP) incorporating telephone and text-messaging into Chinese. 2) To evaluate the effectiveness of CDSMP for patients with type 2 diabetes who have suffered a critical cardiac event among Australian and Taiwanese populations.
Interventions
The intervention – “Cardiac-Diabetes Self-Management Program incorporating telephone and text-messaging (T-CDSMP)” consists of three face-to-face sessions as well as telephone and text-message follow-up. The face-to-face sessions will be commenced within 48 hours of admission. They will be provided by a trained Research Nurse and be conducted while the patients are in hospitals in either Australia and in Taiwan. Follow up will be once a week by telephone call (at 1 week after discharge home), an
The intervention – “Cardiac-Diabetes Self-Management Program incorporating telephone and text-messaging (T-CDSMP)” consists of three face-to-face sessions as well as telephone and text-message follow-up. The face-to-face sessions will be commenced within 48 hours of admission. They will be provided by a trained Research Nurse and be conducted while the patients are in hospitals in either Australia and in Taiwan. Follow up will be once a week by telephone call (at 1 week after discharge home), and by text-messages which will be sent a week after the telephone follow up. The length of intervention is 4 weeks.
Sponsors
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
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.
Outcome results
None listed