Comparison of Active Treatments For IGR:a SRFT/Hitachi trial (CATFISH)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Comparison of Active Treatments For Impaired Glucose Regulation: a Salford Royal Foundation Trust and Hitachi collaboration (CATFISH)
IRAS ID
174343
Contact name
Peter Coventry
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Manchester
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 4 months, 31 days
Research summary
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 nonclinical, health advisors. The service has been adapted to meet the needs of patients with IGR and shown promising results. An enhanced version that makes greater use of web based materials has been developed, known as IGR3.
The IGR3 health coaching intervention 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 will be able to track progress using a web ‘dashboard’, and communicate with their health coach via the web interface.
This trial will evaluate the acceptability and direct costs of IGR3 over a period of 9 months using validated selfreported outcome measures and clinical outcomes related to diabetes health.
Existing (known as IGR2) and IGR3 health coaching will be delivered by health trainers from the Diabetes Care Call service.
200 people (aged 18+) with diagnosed IGR and referred to the Salford Care Call service.
Eligible and willing participants will be randomised to either (a) telephone only heath coaching or (b) telephone plus web health coaching.
REC name
East of England - Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/EE/0117
Date of REC Opinion
27 Mar 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion