Are Audiovisual Materials Superior to Printed Materials in Improving Awareness Among Type 2 Diabetic Patients?

Diabetes Mellitus Clinical Trial

— SA  

Official title:

Are Audiovisual Educational Materials Superior to Printed Educational Materials in Improving Insulin Awareness Among Saudi Type 2 Diabetic Patients in Primary Care Setting?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03544645
• Other study ID #: KingAbdullahIMRC
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 16, 2017
• Est. completion date: March 28, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: May 2018
• Source: King Abdullah International Medical Research Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This research evaluates the effectiveness of video educations against patients fixed believes and knowledge that either not precise or overestimated, and compare with classic educational method such as Brochure. As many researches indicates the difficulties to initiate insulin therapy for type 2 diabetic patients due to overestimated barriers such as needle anxiety, feelings of guilt and failure, concerns about hypoglycemia, sense of loss of control over one's life and reduced quality of life. This research will introduce different educational tools to evaluate their effectiveness in breaking psychological insulin barriers.

Description:

Introduction This research evaluates the effectiveness of video educations against patients fixed believes and knowledge that either not precise or overestimated, and compare with classic educational method such as Brochure. As many researches indicates the difficulties to initiate insulin therapy for type 2 diabetic patients due to overestimated barriers such as needle anxiety, feelings of guilt and failure, concerns about hypoglycemia, sense of loss of control over one's life and reduced quality of life. This research will introduce different educational tools to evaluate their effectiveness in breaking psychological insulin barriers.

Methodology It's a randomized controlled trial. Validated questionnaire (ITAS) was used to evaluate the psychological insulin barriers, video and Brochures were devolved as educational materials contain same contents and validated. Study conducted in King Abdulaziz city housing with total sample size of 126. They were divided into intervention group (video group) and controlled group (Brochure group). Both group filled the same questionnaire before the intervention. And then immediately after the intervention. Six weeks later, both groups filled the same questionnaire to measure the long-term effects.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 126
• Est. completion date: March 28, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: October 22, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 30 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Type 2 diabetic patients

2. Age group from 30 to 70 years

3. A1c = 8 mg/dL or above

4. Both genders

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Pregnant women

2. Blindness or profound vision loss

3. Severe mental problems e.g. Psychosis

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Diabetes Mellitus

Intervention

Other:
• Audiovisual material "video"
an educational video which has content of knowledge, attitude, behavior, and barriers towards insulin therapy.
• Printed material "brochure"
an educational brochure which has content of knowledge, attitude, behavior, and barriers towards insulin theray.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Saudi Arabia	King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences	Riyadh

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Saudi Arabia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	compare the impact of audiovisual educational materials verses printed educational materials	compare intervention versus control on type 2 diabetic patients' knowledge, attitude and practice towards insulin therapy by assessing the patients before, directly after and 6 weeks after the intervention using a validated questionnaire (ITAS) to evaluate the psychological insulin barriers, both intervention and control were devolved as educational materials contain same contents and validated	6 weeks