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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2017 Dec 8;17(1):75.
doi: 10.1186/s12902-017-0227-x.

Socio-demographic determinants and effect of structured personal diabetes care: a 19-year follow-up of the randomized controlled study diabetes Care in General Practice (DCGP)

Andreas Heltberg  1   2   3 , Volkert Siersma  4 , John Sahl Andersen  5 , Christina Ellervik  6   7   8 , Henrik Brønnum-Hansen  9 , Jakob Kragstrup  5 , Niels de Fine Olivarius  4
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Socio-demographic determinants and effect of structured personal diabetes care: a 19-year follow-up of the randomized controlled study diabetes Care in General Practice (DCGP)

Andreas Heltberg et al. BMC Endocr Disord. .

Abstract

Background: We investigated how four aspects of socio-demography influence the effectiveness of an intervention with structured personal diabetes care on long-term outcomes.

Methods: The Diabetes Care in General Practice (DCGP) study is a cluster-randomized trial involving a population-based sample of 1381 patients with newly diagnosed type 2-diabetes mellitus. We investigated how education, employment, cohabitation status and residence influenced the effectiveness of 6 years of intervention with structured personal diabetes care, resembling present day recommendations. Outcomes were incidence of any diabetes-related endpoint and death during 19 years after diagnosis, and cardiovascular risk factors, behaviour, attitudes and process-of-care variables 6 years after diagnosis.

Results: Structured personal care reduced the risk of any diabetes-related endpoint and the effect of the intervention was modified by geographical area (interaction p = 0.034) with HR of 0.71 (95%CI: 0.60-0.85) and of 1.07 (95%CI: 0.77-1.48), for patients in urban and rural areas, respectively. Otherwise, there was no effect modification of education, employment and civil status on the intervention for the final endpoints. There were no noticeable socio-demographic differences in the effect of the intervention on cardiovascular risk factors, behaviour, attitudes, and process-of-care.

Conclusion: Structured personal care reduced the aggregate outcome of any diabetes-related endpoint and independent of socio-demographic factors similar effect on cardiovascular risk factors, behaviour, attitudes and process of care, but the intervention did not change the existing inequity in mortality and morbidity. Residence modified the uptake of the intervention with patients living in urban areas having more to gain of the intervention than rural patients, further investigations is warranted.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov registration no. NCT01074762 (February 24, 2010).

Keywords: Clinical outcomes; Intervention; Social inequalities; Type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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Conflict of interest statement

Ethics approval and consent to participate

All patients gave verbal informed consent to participate, following a dialogue with their GP, where the patients could ask questions, to secure an informed consent. The Ethics Committee of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg (V.100.869/87) approved the study and this procedure for informed consent. When the study started off in 1988 it was coutume to seek informed consent orally.

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Not applicable.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests

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Patient flow diagram from inclusion until 19-year register based follow-up
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Fig. 2
Kaplan-Meier plot showing the proportion of surviving patients since diabetes diagnosis in patients according to randomization arm and highest attained education level, only basic schooling vs. higher
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Fig. 3
Kaplan-Meier plot showing the proportion of patients without any diabetes related endpoint since diagnosis according to randomization arm and highest attained education level, only basic schooling vs. higher
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