Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Completed
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT03980808 |
| Other study ID # |
H19229 |
| Secondary ID |
5P30DK111024-04 |
| Status |
Completed |
| Phase |
N/A
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| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
October 29, 2020 |
| Est. completion date |
January 26, 2021 |
Study information
| Verified date |
August 2022 |
| Source |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Contact |
n/a |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Interventional
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Clinical Trial Summary
ASL-ADE will evaluate the efficacy of an ASL-interpreted diabetes educational intervention to
the end of improving the health literacy of the target population and addressing their
disparate health outcomes.
Description:
Georgia Tech's Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP) proposes the American Sign
Language Accessible Diabetes Education (ASL-ADE) project in response to the Georgia Center
for Diabetes Translation Research for a pilot and feasibility study on "Type II translation
research in diabetes care and prevention." ASL-ADE will conduct an efficacy study, in the
Engagement and Behavior Change Core, with the long-term objective of improved health outcomes
for individuals who are Deaf and primarily communicate using ASL. The project will
demonstrate the need for diabetes educational materials to be accessible to people who are
Deaf and rely on ASL for clear and effective communications. ASL is a distinct language used
by individuals of the Deaf community and is grammatically dissimilar to English. Some people
who are Deaf rely primarily on ASL and have limited English proficiency. , Other people who
are deaf are comfortable with written English. Due to the language diversity within this
community, diabetes health education materials are not always accessible. For example, there
are low levels of general health literacy among people who are Deaf which increases risk for
developing chronic illnesses, , , including diabetes. As such, people who are Deaf also have
an increased risk for acute complications associated with diabetes. The low level of health
literacy among the target population is directly related to communication/language barriers,
as much of the health education outreach mechanisms are exclusionary because of their use of
audio and print materials. The hearing population can benefit from incidental learning such
as overhearing conversations and watching the news, even commercials. It is a form of
socialization that is often taken for granted by people who can hear. To address this access
gap, the goals of ASL-ADE are to provide accessible materials to improve health literacy and
(1) impact awareness of risk factors, preventive measures, and diabetes symptoms, and (2)
elicit the desired behavioral response to seek medical care and modify health-related
behaviors. The proposed project will produce a video-based ASL interpreted diabetes
educational intervention, and using a pretest-posttest (immediate) 30-day posttest
quasi-experimental design, evaluate the effect of the educational intervention on knowledge
about diabetes and related health behavior changes. Data will be analyzed along the
dimensions of diagnosis status to measure if there is variance in scores for people who are
Deaf with a diabetes diagnosis compared to their non-diagnosed counterparts; the a priori
hypothesis being that given the communication barriers experienced by people who are Deaf,
that no significant between-group differences will be found on pretest scores based on
diagnosis status.
This description is revised to exclude analysis along the dimensions of age because our
sample did not contain enough subjects between the ages of 18-30 to run a comparison.
