Effectiveness of general practice based, practice nurse led telephone coaching on glycaemic control of type 2 diabetes: the Patient Engagement and Coaching for Health (PEACH) pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effectiveness of goal focused telephone coaching by practice nurses in improving glycaemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes in Australia.

Design

Prospective, cluster randomised controlled trial, with general practices as the unit of randomisation.

Setting

General practices in Victoria, Australia.

Participants

59 of 69 general practices that agreed to participate recruited sufficient patients and were randomised. Of 829 patients with type 2 diabetes (glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) >7.5% in the past 12 months) who were assessed for eligibility, 473 (236 from 30 intervention practices and 237 from 29 control practices) agreed to participate.

Intervention

Practice nurses from intervention practices received two days of trainin

SUBMITTER: Blackberry ID 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3776648 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature