Diabetic Peripheral NeuropathyNCT02056431
Balancing Treatment Outcomes and Medication Burden Among Patients With Symptomatic Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
A study testing IVR Intervention Group in people with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy, run by Kaiser Permanente at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
Painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) affects more than 5.5 million people with diabetes. People with painful DPN have trouble sleeping, participating in social events, and conducting daily activities such as going to the store. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
- What is being tested?
- IVR Intervention Group
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 1,270 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Oct 2014to Sep 2016
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- All patients newly prescribed medication to treat diabetic peripheral neuropathy symptoms.
Who cannot join
- Patients with any evidence of use of diabetic peripheral neuropathy study medications.
- Patients with evidence of gestational diabetes (ICD-9: 648.8) due to variation in treatment and monitoring for women who are pregnant.
- Patients who simultaneously received a new diagnosis for depression or seizure conditions
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
Division of Research Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, California, 94612
About this study
Painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) affects more than 5.5 million people with diabetes. People with painful DPN have trouble sleeping, participating in social events, and conducting daily activities such as going to the store. Several prescription medications are available for the treatment of DPN symptoms, but none work perfectly and all have side effects that may be difficult for some patients.
When patients report their symptoms and side effects to their doctor, they provide the doctor with important information to help them make adjustments to treatment that will help with symptoms and that the patient can tolerate in terms of side effects. In some cases, doctors may encourage patients to make these changes on their own at home based on their experience with therapy. However, patients may have a long time between visits to their doctor and may have trouble describing their symptoms to their doctor during a brief 10 to 15 minute visit.
Read more
This clinical trial explores the possibility of computerized telephone calls to patients (Interactive Voice Response, IVR, technology) to gather information about treatment experiences that can then be reported to the doctor or used to guide patients to make changes in how they take the medication. It addresses the following question: Can routinely asking patients about their experiences with medications and using that information to encourage clinically appropriate titration improve patient quality of life?
The investigators hypothesize that systematic collection and feedback of information about DPN treatment preferences and experience from newly treated patients to their primary care physician will facilitate treatment changes that improve patient outcomes
Read the detailed description
Among newly-treated Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN) patients, the investigators will compare the systematic collection and feedback of information about patients' treatment experiences on changes in quality of life (intervention group) to newly treated DPN patients in usual care who will receive generic educational messages by phone but no active data collection and feedback (comparator group). The investigators have chosen usual care as the control to evaluate the potential for the intervention to enhance current practice.
Aim 1: Refine and pilot test instruments for collecting the patient-reported data most important for guiding changes in treatment.
Aim 2: Implement a seven-month cluster randomized trial to improve quality of life among patients newly treated for DPN symptoms by collecting data on patient treatment experiences and facilitating evidence-based patient and provider-initiated treatment titration.
Aim 3: Examine patient and physician initiated treatment changes as secondary outcomes in order to inform the development of this type of rapid feedback process for guiding decision making about initial treatment selection among patients with DPN.
- Conditions
- Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
- Being tested
- IVR Intervention Group
- Keywords
- Diabetes, Neuropathy, Patient-Reported Outcomes
- Medical subject headings
- Diabetes Mellitus
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
IVR Intervention GroupBehavioural
Participants will receive 3 interactive voice response (IVR) calls (2nd, 4th, and 6th month post-treatment start date) to collect information on medication use, side effects, rating of side effects, and pain symptoms to be fed back to their physicians.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| IVR Intervention Group | Experimental | Participants will receive 3 interactive voice response (IVR) calls (2nd, 4th, and 6th month post-treatment start date) to collect information on medication use, side effects, rating of side effects, and pain symptoms to be fed back to their physicians. Receives: Behavioral: IVR Intervention Group |
| IVR Control Group | No intervention | Participants will receive 3 non-interactive voice response (IVR) calls (2nd, 4th, and 6th month post-treatment start date) containing general messages regarding diabetic education. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Change in Patient Quality of Life at Baseline and 8 Months
The primary outcome measure is change in quality of life from baseline at eight months following study entry. We calculated the EuroQOL (EQ-5D) from the Global Health Scale, a 10-item Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System measure developed and validated in patients with neuropathy as part of the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders Measures. The range for EQ-5D is 0-1, with "0" being the worst and "1" being the best.
Measured: Baseline and 8 months
Secondary outcomes (1)
Number of Participants With Minimally Effective Dose in 12 Months
Count of patients who ever received a minimally effective dose of the medications they started on during the 12 months following treatment start (measured post only).
Measured: 12 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted6 Feb 2014 (estimated)
- Study startOct 2014
- Primary completionJul 2016
- Study completionSep 2016
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, outcome measures and adverse events reported by the sponsor.
- Publications (2)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Diabetic Peripheral NeuropathyStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Kaiser PermanenteThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Double blind
- Who is masked
- Participant, Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 1,270 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Kaiser Permanente
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Alyce S. Adams, PhD, Principal investigator, Kaiser Permanente
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02056431
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- CE-1304-7250
- Status last verified
- May 2018
- First submitted
- 31 Jan 2014
- Last updated
- 28 Jun 2018
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Adams AS, Bayliss EA, Schmittdiel JA, Altschuler A, Dyer W, Neugebauer R, Jaffe M, Young JD, Kim E, Grant RW; Diabetes Telephone Study Team. The Diabetes Telephone Study: Design and challenges of a pragmatic cluster randomized trial to improve diabetic peripheral neuropathy treatment. Clin Trials. 2016 Jun;13(3):286-93. doi: 10.1177/1740774516631530. Epub 2016 Mar 31.
PubMed 27034455Adams AS, Schmittdiel JA, Altschuler A, Bayliss EA, Neugebauer R, Ma L, Dyer W, Clark J, Cook B, Willyoung D, Jaffe M, Young JD, Kim E, Boggs JM, Prosser LA, Wittenberg E, Callaghan B, Shainline M, Hippler RM, Grant RW. Automated symptom and treatment side effect monitoring for improved quality of life among adults with diabetic peripheral neuropathy in primary care: a pragmatic, cluster, randomized, controlled trial. Diabet Med. 2019 Jan;36(1):52-61. doi: 10.1111/dme.13840. Epub 2018 Nov 7.
PubMed 30343489
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 28 Jun 2018. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Balancing Treatment Outcomes and Medication Burden Among Patients With Symptomatic Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02056431
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- CE-1304-7250
- Conditions
- Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
- Keywords
- Diabetes, Neuropathy, Patient-Reported Outcomes
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 1,270 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Kaiser PermanenteUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
- Study start
- Oct 2014
- Primary completion
- Jul 2016 (actual)
- Study completion
- Sep 2016 (actual)
- First posted
- 6 Feb 2014 (estimated)
- Results
- Posted 12 Feb 2018
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) affects more than 5.5 million people with diabetes. People with painful DPN have trouble sleeping, participating in social events, and conducting daily activities such as going to the store. Several prescription medications are available for the treatment of DPN symptoms, but none work perfectly and all have side effects that may be difficult for some patients.
When patients report their symptoms and side effects to their doctor, they provide the doctor with important information to help them make adjustments to treatment that will help with symptoms and that the patient can tolerate in terms of side effects. In some cases, doctors may encourage patients to make these changes on their own at home based on their experience with therapy. However, patients may have a long time between visits to their doctor and may have trouble describing their symptoms to their doctor during a brief 10 to 15 minute visit.
This clinical trial explores the possibility of computerized telephone calls to patients (Interactive Voice Response, IVR, technology) to gather information about treatment experiences that can then be reported to the doctor or used to guide patients to make changes in how they take the medication. It addresses the following question: Can routinely asking patients about their experiences with medications and using that information to encourage clinically appropriate titration improve patient quality of life?
The investigators hypothesize that systematic collection and feedback of information about DPN treatment preferences and experience from newly treated patients to their primary care physician will facilitate treatment changes that improve patient outcomes
Detailed description
Among newly-treated Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy (DPN) patients, the investigators will compare the systematic collection and feedback of information about patients' treatment experiences on changes in quality of life (intervention group) to newly treated DPN patients in usual care who will receive generic educational messages by phone but no active data collection and feedback (comparator group). The investigators have chosen usual care as the control to evaluate the potential for the intervention to enhance current practice.
Aim 1: Refine and pilot test instruments for collecting the patient-reported data most important for guiding changes in treatment.
Aim 2: Implement a seven-month cluster randomized trial to improve quality of life among patients newly treated for DPN symptoms by collecting data on patient treatment experiences and facilitating evidence-based patient and provider-initiated treatment titration.
Aim 3: Examine patient and physician initiated treatment changes as secondary outcomes in order to inform the development of this type of rapid feedback process for guiding decision making about initial treatment selection among patients with DPN.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Double blind (participant, outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| IVR Intervention Group | Experimental | Behavioral: IVR Intervention GroupParticipants will receive 3 interactive voice response (IVR) calls (2nd, 4th, and 6th month post-treatment start date) to collect information on medication use, side effects, rating of side effects, and pain symptoms to be fed back to their physicians. |
| IVR Control Group | No intervention | –Participants will receive 3 non-interactive voice response (IVR) calls (2nd, 4th, and 6th month post-treatment start date) containing general messages regarding diabetic education. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- All patients newly prescribed medication to treat diabetic peripheral neuropathy symptoms.
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Patients with any evidence of use of diabetic peripheral neuropathy study medications.
- Patients with evidence of gestational diabetes (ICD-9: 648.8) due to variation in treatment and monitoring for women who are pregnant.
- Patients who simultaneously received a new diagnosis for depression or seizure conditions
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| IVR Intervention GroupParticipants will receive 3 interactive voice response (IVR) calls (2nd, 4th, and 6th month post-treatment start date) to collect information on medication use, side effects, rating of side effects, and pain symptoms to be fed back to their physicians. | Behavioural | IVR Intervention Group |
Primary outcome
Change in Patient Quality of Life at Baseline and 8 Months
Time frame: Baseline and 8 months
The primary outcome measure is change in quality of life from baseline at eight months following study entry. We calculated the EuroQOL (EQ-5D) from the Global Health Scale, a 10-item Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System measure developed and validated in patients with neuropathy as part of the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders Measures. The range for EQ-5D is 0-1, with "0" being the worst and "1" being the best.
1 secondary outcome
Number of Participants With Minimally Effective Dose in 12 Months
Time frame: 12 months
Results and safety
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Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 28 Jun 2018.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, baseline, all outcome measures and adverse events.
- Results publication: PubMed 27034455Adams AS, Bayliss EA, Schmittdiel JA, Altschuler A, Dyer W, Neugebauer R, Jaffe M, Young JD, Kim E, Grant RW; Diabetes Telephone Study Team. The Diabetes Telephone Study: Design and challenges of a pragmatic cluster randomized trial to improve diabetic peripheral neuropathy treatment. Clin Trials. 2016 Jun;13(3):286-93. doi: 10.1177/1740774516631530. Epub 2016 Mar 31.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 30343489Adams AS, Schmittdiel JA, Altschuler A, Bayliss EA, Neugebauer R, Ma L, Dyer W, Clark J, Cook B, Willyoung D, Jaffe M, Young JD, Kim E, Boggs JM, Prosser LA, Wittenberg E, Callaghan B, Shainline M, Hippler RM, Grant RW. Automated symptom and treatment side effect monitoring for improved quality of life among adults with diabetic peripheral neuropathy in primary care: a pragmatic, cluster, randomized, controlled trial. Diabet Med. 2019 Jan;36(1):52-61. doi: 10.1111/dme.13840. Epub 2018 Nov 7.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Alyce S. Adams, PhD principal investigator
Kaiser Permanente
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing IVR Intervention Group in people with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy, run by Kaiser Permanente at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 28 Jun 2018. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 12 Feb 2018). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Change in Patient Quality of Life at Baseline and 8 Months (time frame: Baseline and 8 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02056431, which also lists 2 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 28 Jun 2018.