Approaches to Foot Complication Prevention: A Survey of Diabetes Educators

Foot Ulcer, Diabetic Clinical Trial

Official title:

Approaches to Foot Complication Prevention: A Survey of Diabetes Educators

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Enrolling by invitation

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04400344
• Other study ID #: A20-018-682
• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Start date: June 13, 2020
• Est. completion date: May 13, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: August 2020
• Source: Podimetrics, Inc.
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of the survey is to assess the knowledge base, role in management, and resources available to diabetes educators regarding foot complication prevention within a variety of healthcare settings.

Description:

Podimetrics is a care management company with a temperature-based foot monitoring solution to help prevent diabetic foot ulcers, one of the most debilitating and costly complications of diabetes.

Diabetes educators within the AADE/ADCES encompass a wide array of medical disciplines including nurses, physicians, dieticians, and pharmacists. Diabetes researchers want to better understand the degree to which diabetic foot care and prevention is incorporated into the diabetes education curriculum. To what extent are these topics discussed between diabetes educators and the patients they interact with? And how comfortable are educators in discussing these topics?

To gain insight into these questions Podimetrics researchers have designed an online questionnaire survey for completion by AADE members. The general purpose of the survey is to assess the knowledge base, role in management, and resources available to diabetes educators regarding foot complication prevention within a variety of healthcare settings.

The specific aim is to collect generalizable data to characterize the current state of diabetic foot education and identify any gaps in knowledge that may be present. Furthermore, if it is found that educators are lacking important knowledge which supports ample diabetic foot health education, approaches to bridge these gaps may be suggested through published recommendations.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Enrollment: 6000
• Est. completion date: May 13, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: May 13, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) member with accurate email address on file with the AADE.

Exclusion Criteria:

• AADE member with an inability to read English.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Diabetic Foot
• Foot Ulcer
• Foot Ulcer, Diabetic

Intervention

Other:
• No intervention
No intervention

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Podimetrics,Inc.	Somerville	Massachusetts

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Podimetrics, Inc.	American Association of Diabetes Educators

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Current state of diabetic foot care education and knowledge base among diabetic educators	Survey of diabetic foot care recommendations, treatment options, risk classifications, role in management, and resources available to diabetes educators regarding foot complication prevention within a variety of healthcare settings.	One year