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Type 2 DiabetesFAMS 2NCT04347291

Mobile Phone Support for Adults and Support Persons to Live Well With Diabetes

A study testing FAMS 2.0 and Print Materials in people with Type 2 Diabetes, run by Vanderbilt University Medical Center at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

This study evaluates a mobile phone-delivered intervention (FAMS 2.0; Family/friend Activation to Motivate Self-care) designed to help adults with type 2 diabetes set and achieve self-care goals and improve the quality of family/friend support for their goals. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 75 years
Conditions the study is for
Type 2 Diabetes
What is being tested?
FAMS 2.0 and Print Materials
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
638 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
28 Apr 2020to 17 Feb 2023
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 to 75 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • PATIENTS:
  • Speaks and reads in English
  • 18-75 years old
  • Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
  • Receiving outpatient care from a partnering clinic
  • Community dwelling (e.g., not in a nursing facility)
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  • Prescribed at least one daily diabetes medication
  • Owns a mobile phone
  • SUPPORT PERSONS:
  • Speaks and reads in English
  • 18 years or older
  • Owns a mobile phone

Who cannot join

  • PATIENTS:
  • Unable to communicate by phone
  • Pregnant currently
  • Currently undergoing treatment for cancer (e.g., radiation, chemotherapy)
  • Diagnosed with end-stage renal disease
  • Receiving hospice services
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  • Diagnosed with congestive heart failure
  • Diagnosed with dementia
  • Diagnosed with schizophrenia
  • Reported current abuse during screening
  • Demonstrates inability to receive and respond to a text
  • Does not take medication on his/her own/medication administered by someone else
  • SUPPORT PERSONS:
  • Demonstrates inability to receive and respond to a text

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Nashville, Tennessee, 37203

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About this study

This study evaluates a mobile phone-delivered intervention (FAMS 2.0; Family/friend Activation to Motivate Self-care) designed to help adults with type 2 diabetes set and achieve self-care goals and improve the quality of family/friend support for their goals. The investigators hypothesize that FAMS 2.0 will improve glycemic control and reduce diabetes distress among patients and reduce support burden and diabetes distress in enrolled support persons. The investigators hypothesize the mechanisms by which FAMS 2.0 will affect these outcomes for the patient include (a) increased helpful and reduced harmful family/friend involvement, (b) increased self-care (i.e., diet, physical activity, medication adherence), and (c) increased diabetes self-efficacy.

Read the detailed description

The 9-month FAMS 2.0 intervention is an expansion and improvement of a previously evaluated intervention (FAMS; NCT02481596). FAMS components include:

  • Monthly coaching sessions (20-30 minutes each) with patient participants by phone focusing on helpful/unhelpful/desired family and friend behaviors relevant to the patients' self-identified diet, exercise, and/or stress management goal
  • Daily one-way and interactive text messages to the patient to support him/her in meeting the identified daily goal and medication adherence
  • Weekly interactive text messages asking the patient to reflect on goal progress followed by personalized feedback from the coach
  • The option to invite an adult support person to receive text messages (3 one-way per week and one interactive text per week) encouraging the support person to discuss the patient's self-care goal to provide opportunities for the patient to practice skills discussed during phone coaching

Participants will be randomized in a parallel design to either FAMS 2.0 or an active control. Our target enrollment is N=334 dyads (patient participants and support persons). Patients are encouraged to invite a support person, but it is not required. Patients and their support person will be randomized together (if enrolled). The study is powered to detect a 0.5% reduction in hemoglobin A1c. Analyses will examine effects at 9 months (post-intervention) and 15 months (sustained effects). The investigators will impute missing data, including all participants completing at least two data collection periods in analyses. Participants will be analyzed as randomized regardless of withdrawal from the intervention (i.e., intention-to-treat principals).

Conditions
Type 2 Diabetes
Being tested
FAMS 2.0, Print Materials
Keywords
family support, social support, text message, mobile health, hemoglobin A1c
Medical subject headings
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • FAMS 2.0Behavioural

    Also called Family/friend Activation to Motivate Self-care, (prior iteration) Family-focused Add-on to Motivate Self-care (NCT02481596)

    FAMS components include monthly phone coaching following a semi-structured protocol plus daily automated text message support to the patient participant and less frequent automated text messages to their support person, if enrolled.

  • Print MaterialsBehavioural

    Quality print materials about diabetes management provided upon enrollment and in quarterly study newsletters.

Study groups in NCT04347291
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
FAMS 2.0ExperimentalPatient participants will receive FAMS 2.0 components (monthly phone coaching and text message support for goals and medication adherence) for nine months. Linked support persons will receive text message support tailored to the goal set by the patient participant. All patient participants will receive text messages advising how to access their study A1c test results, and receive high-quality print materials including a book upon enrollment and quarterly newsletters on healthy living with diabetes. All support person participants will receive high-quality print materials including a book and information about providing quality social support upon enrollment and quarterly newsletters on healthy living with diabetes.
Receives: Behavioral: FAMS 2.0; Behavioral: Print Materials
Print MaterialsPlacebo comparatorAll patient participants will receive text messages advising how to access their study A1c test results, and receive high-quality print materials including a book upon enrollment and quarterly newsletters on healthy living with diabetes. All support person participants will receive high-quality print materials including a book and information about providing quality social support upon enrollment and quarterly newsletters on healthy living with diabetes.
Receives: Behavioral: Print Materials

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Change in Glycemic Control (Patient Participants) During Intervention Period

    Hemoglobin A1c assessed by mail-in A1c kits from CoreMedica and/or taken from electronic health record (venipuncture or point-of-care) where higher values indicate worse glycemic control

    Measured: Baseline and 6 and 9 months post-baseline

  2. Change in Glycemic Control (Patient Participants) Sustained Post-intervention Effects

    Hemoglobin A1c assessed by mail-in A1c kits from CoreMedica and/or taken from electronic health record (venipuncture or point-of-care) where higher values indicate worse glycemic control

    Measured: Baseline and 12 and 15 months post-baseline

  3. Change in Diabetes Distress (Patient Participants) During Intervention Period

    Assessed by the Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID-5) with scores ranging 0-100 where higher scores indicate more distress (worse)

    Measured: Baseline and 6 and 9 months post-baseline

  4. Change in Diabetes Distress (Patient Participants) Sustained Post-intervention Effect

    Assessed by the Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID-5) with scores ranging 0-100 where higher scores indicate more distress (worse)

    Measured: Baseline and 15 months post-baseline

  5. Change in Psychosocial Well-being (Patient Participants) During Intervention Period

    Assessed by the World Health Organization - Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5) with scores ranging 0 to 100 where higher scores indicate more well-being (better)

    Measured: Baseline and 6 and 9 months post-baseline

  6. Change in Psychosocial Well-being (Patient Participants) Sustained Post-intervention Effect

    Assessed by the World Health Organization - Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5) with scores ranging 0 to 100 where higher scores indicate more well-being (better)

    Measured: Baseline and15 months post-baseline

Secondary outcomes (4)
  1. Change in Diabetes Distress (Support Person Participants) During Intervention Period

    as assessed by the Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID-5) Family Member Version. Scores range 0-100 where higher scores indicate more diabetes distress experienced by the support person (worse)

    Measured: Baseline and 6 and 9 months post-baseline

  2. Change in Diabetes Distress (Support Person Participants) Sustained Post-intervention Effect

    Assessed by the Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID-5) Family Member Version. Scores range 0-100 with higher scores indicate more diabetes distress experienced by the support person (worse)

    Measured: Baseline and 15 months post-baseline

  3. Change in Support Burden (Support Person Participants) During Intervention Period

    as assessed by the Impact of Diabetes Profile-Family Members from the Diabetes Attitudes Wishes and Needs Study-2 (DAWN2). Scores range 0 to 4 where higher scores indicate greater support burden (worse)

    Measured: Baseline and 6 and 9 months post-baseline

  4. Change in Support Burden (Support Person Participants) Sustained Post-intervention Effect

    as assessed by the Impact of Diabetes Profile-Family Members from the Diabetes Attitudes Wishes and Needs Study-2 (DAWN2). Scores range 0 to 100 where higher scores indicate greater support burden (worse)

    Measured: Baseline and 15 months post-baseline

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted15 Apr 2020
  2. Study start28 Apr 2020
  3. Primary completion17 Feb 2023
  4. Study completion17 Feb 2023

Resources

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
Single blind
Who is masked
Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
638 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04347291
Sponsor's protocol ID
200398
Other IDs
R01DK119282
Acronym
FAMS 2
Status last verified
Dec 2023
First submitted
30 Mar 2020
Last updated
17 Jan 2024
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: After study results are posted on clinical trials and published, de-identified data will be available upon requests made to the principal investigator.

Publications

  • Roddy MK, Spieker AJ, Greevy RA Jr, Nelson LA, Berg C, Mayberry LS. Diabetes-specific family functioning typology associated with intervention engagement and effects: secondary analyses from a randomized controlled trial. Ann Behav Med. 2025 Jan 4;59(1):kaae070. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaae070.

    PubMed 39661957
  • Nelson LA, Spieker AJ, LeStourgeon LM, Greevy RA Jr, Molli S, Roddy MK, Mayberry LS. The Goldilocks Dilemma on Balancing User Response and Reflection in mHealth Interventions: Observational Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2024 Jan 19;12:e47632. doi: 10.2196/47632.

    PubMed 38297891
  • Roddy MK, El-Rifai M, LeStourgeon L, Aikens JE, Wolever RQ, Greevy RA, Mayberry LS. Prerandomization withdrawals from a Type 2 diabetes self-care support intervention trial are associated with lack of available support person coparticipant. Chronic Illn. 2025 Mar;21(1):105-114. doi: 10.1177/17423953231203734. Epub 2023 Sep 26.

    PubMed 37750180
  • Mayberry LS, El-Rifai M, Nelson LA, Parks M, Greevy RA Jr, LeStourgeon L, Molli S, Bergner E, Spieker A, Aikens JE, Wolever RQ. Rationale, design, and recruitment outcomes for the Family/Friend Activation to Motivate Self-care (FAMS) 2.0 randomized controlled trial among adults with type 2 diabetes and their support persons. Contemp Clin Trials. 2022 Nov;122:106956. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2022.106956. Epub 2022 Oct 5.

    PubMed 36208719

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing FAMS 2.0 and Print Materials in people with Type 2 Diabetes, run by Vanderbilt University Medical Center 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 12 inclusion and 14 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 17 Jan 2024. 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. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. 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 17 Jan 2024). 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 Glycemic Control (Patient Participants) During Intervention Period (time frame: Baseline and 6 and 9 months post-baseline). The study lists 6 primary outcomes in all. 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 NCT04347291, which also lists 4 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 17 Jan 2024; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 6 Nov 2026.

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