Education Nutritional Video for Gestational Diabetics

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The purpose of this research study is to find out if watching an educational video about nutrition helps participants learn about how different foods affect their blood sugar and how Gestational Diabetes affects pregnancy.

Detailed Description
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Patients diagnosed with gestational diabetes receive standard nutritional counseling at their first high risk clinic visit. All patients agreeing to participate in the study will at this visit fill out a knowledge questionnaire prior to receiving counseling. Patients will be randomized into standard counseling or standard counseling plus educational video using block randomization that has been integrated into the Redcap Survey. Once the Initial survey is completed the RedCap program will inform the patient whether they are randomized to Video or NO Video. Patients randomized to Video will watch the video will watch the video on a clinic designated computer. Patients randomized to no Video will not watch a video. At the next High risk clinic visit one to two weeks later all patients will fill out the same fill out the same questionnaire in addition to the The Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) questionaire. English-speaking patients will view the English version of the video, and Spanish-speaking patients will view the Spanish version of the video in either English or the dubbed Spanish version. A Spanish version of the patient hand-out will be provided in an amendment, prior to their use with Spanish- speaking patients.

Official Title
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Education Nutritional Video for Gestational Diabetics

Conditions
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Gestational Diabetes

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Nutritional Video


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Any diagnosis of Diabetes in Pregnancy Received at least one session of nutritional counseling from the registered dieticians Exclusion Criteria: Age < 18 Patients without diagnosis of diabetes

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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Female

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| No Intervention: Standard care<br>Participants will receive standard nutrition counseling | |
| Experimental: Video<br>Participants will watch an Nutritional video at their first high risk visit. Participants will also receive standard nutrition counseling | Behavioral: Nutritional Video<br>* A 10 - 15 minute video<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Change in nutritional knowledge | Change in nutritional knowledge as measured by 10-item Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Knowledge Questionnaire, each question answered correctly is counted as one towards total score. Maximum score is 10, minimum score is 0. | Baseline to 1 week | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) questionnaire Score | Respondents are asked to indicate the degree to which each of the items is currently a problem for them, from 0 (not a problem) to 4 (a serious problem). This is a 20 item questionaire and calculates a score of 1-100 | 1 week | 
| Patient Satisfaction with Care | Patient satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 5 | 1 week |