Behavior Change
Conditions
Keywords
type 2 diabetes, physical activity, behavior change, profile personality, phone call support
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALphone call support
The intervention group received a phone call support for 6 weeks to incentive to increase the number of steps/day.
Sponsors
University of Sao Paulo
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
40 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Outcome results
None listed