Effect of Using Pictograms on Improving Depression and Anxiety Among Type 2 Diabetic Patients.

Type 2 Diabetes Clinical Trial

Official title:

Impact of Using Pictograms as an Educational Strategy on Improving Patient Depression and Anxiety Among Low Health Literate Patients With Type 2 Diabetes at Northern Badya Hospital, Jordan.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05822349
• Other study ID #: MOH/REC/2022/411
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: August 1, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: April 2023
• Source: University of Jordan
• Contact: Esraa M AL Sbaihat
• Phone: 0779036395
• Email: israa8190637[@]yahoo.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

we will study the impact of using pictograms on improving depression and anxiety among type 2 diabetic patients, we suppose that patients who received pictograms-enriched labels will have lower levels of depression and anxiety in comparison with those who will not receive after three month follow-up evaluation.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 204
• Est. completion date: August 1, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: July 1, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants are eligible if they are Jordanian adults, aged 18 or older, who have been clinically diagnosed with T2DM for at least 6 months, having low health literacy (Individuals who obtained 66 or lower scores in the full TOFHLA instrument are considered as individuals with "low literacy" in the study) [24], come personally for the refill.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are unable to communicate verbally (aphasic or with hearing impairment), those with any visual, learning disabilities, and psychological or hepatorenal disease (according to the clinical diagnosis by a physician), and those deemed too ill or frail to attend the clinic, and who have participated in other diabetes education research projects will be excluded.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• Type 2 Diabetes

Intervention

Behavioral:
• picograms-enriched label
The intervention care includes usual care (instructions for using each anti-diabetic drug) plus pictograms that show how much medications should be taken at each time of day (morning, noon, evening, and night), how to take them in relation to meals, the purpose of the drug, and the most important non-pharmacologic interventions for diabetic patients (weight loss, exercise, avoiding smoking, blood sugar controlling).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Jordan	Northern Badya Hospital	Mafraq

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Jordan

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Jordan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	change in depression level	Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)	12 weeks following ends of intervention
Primary	change in anxiety level	Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7)	12 weeks following ends of intervention