Comparison of active treatments for impaired glucose regulation: a Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Hitachi collaboration

ISRCTN ISRCTN16534814
DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN16534814
Submission date
23/04/2015
Registration date
02/07/2015
Last edited
26/04/2021
Recruitment status
No longer recruiting
Overall study status
Completed
Condition category
Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine
Prospectively registered
Protocol
Statistical analysis plan
Results
Individual participant data

Plain English summary of protocol

Background and study aims
Developing type 2 diabetes is associated with obesity and inactivity, particularly in people who are diagnosed with impaired glucose regulation (IGR), a condition where blood glucose levels are raised above normal but not high enough to warrant a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Changes to lifestyle can delay diabetes onset, but achieving effective lifestyle change is difficult. Health coaching might be a flexible and effective way to do this. Health coaching involves a regular series of phone calls between patient and health professional to provide support and encouragement to the patient, and promote healthy behaviours such as healthy diet, physical activity and mobility, rehabilitation, and good mental health. Salford's multidisciplinary diabetes team delivers health coaching (known as Care Call) for people with type 2 diabetes, using health advisors. The service has been adapted to meet the needs of patients with IGR and show promising results. Salford offers an existing telephone only heath coaching service. There is also an enhanced version that makes greater use of web based materials which offers telephone plus web health coaching. This involves a series of short (20 minute) phone calls to patients, once a month over 6 months, with a step down call at 9 months. Patients are able to track progress using a web ‘dashboard’, and communicate with their health coach via the web interface. The aim of the study is to compare the existing telephone only service with the telephone plus web service.

Who can participate?
Adults diagnosed with IGR, referred to the Salford Care Call service (UK), who have access to a phone and home internet.

What does the study involve?
Participants are randomly allocated to either the telephone only or telephone plus web health coaching service. Participants are asked to fill in questionnaires about their condition and the service they receive.

What are the possible benefits and risks of participating?
No clinical benefits, side effects, disadvantages or risks are expected from taking part. However, the information will help to show which health coaching service is preferred by patients and which health coaching service to commission in the future.

Where is the study run from?
The remote health coaching service will be delivered by health trainers from the Salford Diabetes Care Call service (UK).

When is the study starting and how long is it expected to run for?
November 2014 to August 2016

Who is funding the study?
Hitachi (UK)

Who is the main contact?
Dr Peter Coventry

Contact information

Dr Peter Coventry
Scientific

Mental Health and Addiction Research Group
Department of Health Sciences
Faculty of Science
Area 4, Room A/RC/205, ARRC Building
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
United Kingdom

Study information

Study designSingle-centre interventional study
Primary study designInterventional
Secondary study designRandomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)Home
Study typeTreatment
Participant information sheet Not available in web format, please use the contact details to request a patient information sheet
Scientific titleComparison of active treatments for impaired glucose regulation: a Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Hitachi collaboration: a randomised controlled trial
Study acronymCATFISH
Study objectivesImpaired Glucose Regulation (IGR) is the name given to two conditions which can occur called Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) and Impaired Fasting Glycaemia (IFG) where glucose (sugar) is not being processed efficiently in the body. This results in blood glucose levels which are above the normal range. IGR is a form of prediabetes and if no action is taken around half of patients with IGR will go on to develop type 2 diabetes within 5 to 10 years, putting them at increased risk of further health problems. Relatively modest changes to lifestyle factors such as diet and activity can delay the onset of diabetes, and lifestyle change is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as critical for effective prevention.

A model of care that has potential to achieve prevention through effective behaviour change is ‘health coaching’. The increasing adoption of telephone and mobile technologies among patients, and the potential to deliver care in ways that are efficient and flexible, has led to significant interest in the potential of health coaching. However, evidence of effectiveness and acceptability is mixed.

This study aims to test acceptability and efficiency of two forms of remote health coaching for people with IGR. The principal questions this study asks are:
1. In adult patients with IGR, is a web based telephone coaching intervention more acceptable than an existing telephone only coaching intervention?
2. Is the delivery of the web based intervention more efficient in terms of direct health costs attributed to delivery than the existing teleohone only service?
3. Do patients randomised to the web based service have broadly equivalent clinical outcomes to patients randomised to the existing telephone only service?
Ethics approval(s)NRES Committee East of England – Norfolk Research Ethics Committee, 27/03/2015, ref: 15/EE/0117
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studiedImpaired glucose regulation
InterventionParticipants are randomly allocated to either the telephone only or telephone plus web health coaching service. Participants are asked to fill in questionnaires about their condition and the service they receive.
Intervention typeBehavioural
Primary outcome measureClient Satisfaction Questionnaire (self-reported questionnaire) at baseline and at 9-month follow-up
Secondary outcome measuresHealth outcomes:
Change in HbA1c, weight (kg), and BMI (from baseline to follow-up at 9 months), Quality of life (self reported EQ-5D), mental health (Mental Health Inventory-5)

Health experience and self-management:
Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities (SDSCA), Patient Activation Measure (PAM)

Direct costs of delivery of intervention
Overall study start date20/11/2014
Completion date31/08/2016

Eligibility

Participant type(s)Patient
Age groupAdult
SexBoth
Target number of participants200
Total final enrolment209
Key inclusion criteria1. IGR confirmed by HbA1c between 42-47 mmol/ml in last 6 months
2. Access to a telephone and home internet
Key exclusion criteria1. They were referred to the face-to-face group IGR education session and do not go onto receive telephone only support
2. They are already diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
3. They have gestational diabetes
4. They are aged less than 18 years old
5. They refuse consent
6. They have no English
7. Their GP considers them incapable of participating (e.g. dementia, learning difficulties, vision or motor skills limitations)
Date of first enrolment11/05/2015
Date of final enrolment01/06/2016

Locations

Countries of recruitment

  • England
  • United Kingdom

Study participating centre

Centre for Primary Care
Williamson Building
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom

Sponsor information

University of Manchester
University/education

Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
England
United Kingdom

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Funders

Funder type

Industry

Hitachi
Private sector organisation / For-profit companies (industry)
Alternative name(s)
Hitachi Group
Location
Japan
NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester (CLAHRC)

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date01/02/2018
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to shareYes
IPD sharing plan summaryAvailable on request
Publication and dissemination planAnalysis of primary and secondary outcomes will be completed in summer 2017 and publication of the main trial analysis is scheduled for Jan-Feb 2018 in an high-ranking journal relevant to primary care and diabetes prevention. Analysis of qualitative data will be concurrent with analysis of the quantitative data and publication of qualitative findings is scheduled for March 2018 in a high ranking journal relevant to patient experience of primary care interventions.
IPD sharing planThe datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are/will be available upon request from Dr Peter Coventry. Agreement about accessing participant level data will be made by the principal investigator in conjunction with the funder, Hitachi Europe Ltd.

Study outputs

Output type Details Date created Date added Peer reviewed? Patient-facing?
Protocol article protocol 26/08/2016 Yes No
Results article 04/02/2019 26/04/2021 Yes No
HRA research summary 28/06/2023 No No

Editorial Notes

26/04/2021: The following changes have been made:
1. Publication reference added.
2. The final enrolment number has been added from the reference.
15/03/2017: NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester (CLAHRC) was added as a funder.
30/08/2016: Publication reference added.
14/12/2015: The recruitment end date was changed from 30/09/2015 to 01/06/2016.

The registration was initiated on 23/04/2015 and finalised on 01/07/2015. The recruitment started on 30/06/2015, after initiation of public registration.