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HeLP-Diabetes: randomised controlled trial protocol

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, December 2015
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Title
HeLP-Diabetes: randomised controlled trial protocol
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BMC Health Services Research, December 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12913-015-1246-9
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Elizabeth Murray, Charlotte Dack, Maria Barnard, Andrew Farmer, Jinshuo Li, Susan Michie, Kingshuk Pal, Steve Parrott, Jamie Ross, Michael Sweeting, Bindie Wood, Lucy Yardley

Abstract

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is common, affecting nearly 400 million people worldwide. Achieving good health for people with T2DM requires active self-management; however, uptake of self-management education is poor, and there is an urgent need to find better, more acceptable, cost-effective methods of providing self-management support. Web-based self-management support has many potential benefits for patients and health services. The aim of this trial is to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a web-based self-management support programme for people with T2DM. This will be a multi-centre individually randomised controlled trial in primary care, recruiting adults with T2DM who are registered with participating general practices in England. Participants will be randomised to receive either an evidence-based, theoretically informed, web-based self-management programme for people with T2DM which addresses medical, emotional, and role management, called Healthy Living for People with type 2 Diabetes (HeLP-Diabetes) or a simple information website. The joint primary outcomes are glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) and diabetes-related distress, measured by the Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) questionnaire. Secondary outcomes include cardiovascular risk factors, depression and anxiety, and self-efficacy for self-management of diabetes. Health economic data include health service use, costs due to the intervention, and EQ-5D for calculation of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYS). Data will be collected at baseline, 3 months and 12 months, with the primary endpoint at 12 months. Practice nurses, blinded to patient allocation, collect clinical data; patients complete online questionnaires for patient reported measures. A sample size of 350 recruited participants allows for attrition of up to 15 % and will provide 90 % power of detecting at a 5 % significance level a true average difference in the PAID score of 4.0 and 0.25 % change in HbA1c (both small effect sizes). The analysis will follow a pre-specified analysis plan, based on comparing the groups as randomised (intention-to-treat). The findings of this trial are likely to be of interest to policy makers, clinicians, and commissioners, all of whom are actively seeking additional forms of self-management support for people with T2DM. The Trial Registration number is ISRCTN 02123133 ; date of registration 14.2.13.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 415 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 67 16%
Student > Master 58 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 48 11%
Researcher 40 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 29 7%
Other 60 14%
Unknown 116 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 119 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 73 17%
Psychology 38 9%
Social Sciences 14 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 1%
Other 42 10%
Unknown 127 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 January 2016.
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#5,491,368
of 22,836,570 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#2,345
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#86,780
of 392,772 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#26
of 99 outputs
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