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

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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.

Detailed Description
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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.

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

Conditions
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Diabetes Mellitus

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Audiovisual material video
* Other: Printed material brochure


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Type 2 diabetic patients Age group from 30 to 70 years A1c = 8 mg/dL or above Both genders Exclusion Criteria: Pregnant women Blindness or profound vision loss Severe mental problems e.g. Psychosis

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 30 Years
Maximum Age: 70 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

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: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Active Comparator: control group<br>This group received a printed material brochure as an educational material | Other: Printed material brochure<br>* an educational brochure which has content of knowledge, attitude, behavior, and barriers towards insulin theray.<br>|
| Experimental: intervention group<br>This group received an audiovisual material video as an educational material | Other: Audiovisual material video<br>* an educational video which has content of knowledge, attitude, behavior, and barriers towards insulin therapy.<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Manual material, Diabetic Education, audiovisual material