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Community-Based Intervention to Improve Diabetes Outcomes in Older African American Women With Multi-Caregiving Burden
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Multi-Caregiving Intervention and Diabetes Enhanced Usual Care Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes. Completed, enrolled 60 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
This is a two arm, pilot randomized control trial (RCT) in which 60 African American women (AAW), 40-64 years of age, with HbA1c ≥8% and multi-caregiving responsibilities will be recruited from communities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and randomized to either: 1) an individual-based, social support, health educator-facilitated intervention to address multi-caregiving responsibilities (n=30), or 2) individual-based, health educator-facilitated diabetes education and skills training and general health education (n=30). All sessions will be delivered via telephone (i.e., landline, mobile device, smart device, etc.) by a health educator (i.e., nurse, social worker, Master's trained health educator) and is comprised of 12 weekly sessions and 3 booster sessions. Each session will last up to 60min. All study assessments will be administered by a Program Assistant at baseline, 3-months, and 6-months.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The multi-caregiving intervention consists of individual-based, social support, and health educator facilitation and includes: a. Storytelling/sharing of experiences (5 minutes); social support and problem solving (15 minutes); Coping strategies (15 minutes); and Structured Diabetes Education and Skills Training (15 minutes). The last 5 minutes will be used to debrief and review goals.
This is composed of individual-based, health educator-facilitated diabetes education and skills training and general health education and will receive structured diabetes education and skills training as described above (30 minutes) and an additional discussion on general health topics (i.e., back pain, dyspepsia, etc.) (30 minutes).