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Prevention of diabetes using eCROPS (educating doctors and electronic supports, Counseling diabetes prevention, Recipe for lifestyle modification, Operational toolkit, Performance-based reimbursement for doctors and Screening service)

Integrated and sustainable prevention against diabetes in rural China: Lu'an eCROPS demonstration project

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN66772711
Enrollment
6840
Registered
2013-05-21
Start date
2013-06-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2015-01-13

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Diabetes Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine Diabetes mellitus

Interventions

eCROPS: The villages are recruited in 7 blocks within 7 consecutive years respectively. Block 0 (control) involves 3 villages and provides an opportunity for piloting and refining primitive interventi

Sponsors

Natural Science Foundation of China (China)
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Men and women who are over 40 years and live in the selected villages for over 6 months in a year are eligible for baseline and biannual follow up screening 2. Villagers with a fasting glucose of 5.6<6.9 mmol/l, who are not currently being treated with oral hypoglycemic medication or insulin, are treated as priority intervention group

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Those with a baseline fasting glucose of 6.1-6.9 mmol/l but are confirmed as diabetic 2. Those with a fasting glucose of 5.6-6.9 mmol/l but are on treatment with oral hypoglycemic medication or insulin

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Fasting glucose: For each block, measurement is taken at baseline and every 12 months (for plasma glucose) or monthly (for body weight and blood pressure) after baseline.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
6 years of consecutive measures and detection of lower incidence of progression into diabetes, decreased body mass index and blood pressure, and increased service use and involvement in healthy dietary and physical activities among pre-diabetics receiving the experimental intervention compared to those at baseline or in the delayed-intervention control condition.

Countries

China

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 10, 2026