Telephone Intervention to Improve Diabetes Control: A Randomized Trial in the New York City A1c Registry.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Scalable self-management interventions are necessary to address suboptimal diabetes control, especially among minority populations. The study tested the effectiveness of a telephone behavioral intervention in improving glycemic control among adults with diabetes in the New York City A1c Registry.

Design

RCT comparing a telephone intervention to print-only intervention in the context of the A1c Registry program.

Setting/participants

Nine hundred forty-one adults with diabetes and hemoglobin A1c (A1c) >7% from a low-income, predominantly Latino population in the South Bronx were recruited from the A1c Registry.

Intervention

All study participants were mailed print diabetes self-management materials at baseline and modest lifestyle incentives quarterl

SUBMITTER: Chamany S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4656092 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature