ACT-DE for Diabetes Distress in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: A Pilot RCT

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Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2021
This study is a pilot RCT to examine the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a 6-week acceptance-based diabetes education programme (ACT-DE) on diabetes distress, self-care efficacy and behaviours of adults with type 2 diabetes in Hong Kong. It is hypothesise that the ACT-DE programme will: * Be acceptable, feasible and beneficial for adults with type 2 diabetes to improve their psychological distress and self-care. * Significantly reduce participants\' diabetes distress (primary outcomes), when compared with the usual care (control) group immediately post-intervention; * Significantly improve self-care efficacy, self-care behaviour and psychological flexibility (secondary outcomes) than the control group immediately post-intervention.
Epistemonikos ID: 8562b828b0f181ca894644943b791756177612b3
First added on: May 13, 2024