Detecting Diabetes Sooner With a Risk Survey for the Family Doctor:Comparing Internet and Traditional Methods of Communication for Patients and Doctors

e-Diabetes:Uptake, Patient Preferences and Clinical Outcomes Regarding Self-screening and Clinical Follow-up Using Web-based Technologies in a Large Team-based Primary Care Setting

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01529918

Enrollment

2000

Registered

2012-02-09

Start date

2009-11-30

Completion date

2012-03-31

Last updated

2012-02-09

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Conditions

Diabetes

Keywords

Diabetes, Self-screening, Web-based technology, follow-up clinical care, randomized control trial

Brief summary

This pilot RCT study aims to develop and evaluate the uptake, feasibility, and potential value of a strategy for web-diabetes risk assessment versus paper-based methods in an undiagnosed diabetes population over 40 years of age from all listed FHT provided through an electronic medical record database. Following randomization, intervention participants will have the option to decide to use web-based self-screening and the control group will receive only a paper-based method. There will be two options for web-based screening; one involves completion of the CAN-RISK screening tool as part of a personal health record self-management program (MyOscar) versus a one off online risk-assessment. The intervention and control group will be compared with respect to risk-assessment uptake. Educational sessions and further assessment of diabetes conducted by the clinical health care team will be offered to all participants who scored a high risk of diabetes in accordance with the CAN-RISK results. Actual numbers of diabetes cases in those with a high risk score will be compared between the intervention and control groups as well as compared to the usual method of diabetes screening in a randomly chosen non-identifiable sample from the same clinical setting in the same one year period. The assessment of patient acceptability in feasibility of the implementation of the self-screening tool will be accomplished through surveys designed to be completed by patients and staff.

Interventions

OTHERCANRISK (Canadian Diabetes Association Assessment)

Self-risk assessment questionnaire for diabetes

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

40 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients aged 40 and over who did not have diagnosis of diabetes and no previous use of personal health record (MyOscar)

Exclusion criteria

* People with diabetes, and those who are already registered as MyOSCAR (personal e-health record) users

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Patient's uptake and preferences	1 year	Numbers of patients participating in the self risk-assessment, and a comparison of paper versus web-based technologies will be collected. * Demographics of the 2 groups will be compared. * A user-satisfaction survey will assess patients' perceptions of the technologies. Use of necessary qualitative techniques can be considered as well.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The comparison of yield of actual diabetes detected from those who have high risk at self risk-assessment, compared to the usual diabetes detection rate in a random sample from the practice within a one year period.	1 year

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026