Clinical trial NCT03544645: Are Audiovisual Materials Superior to Printed Materials in Improving Awareness Among Type 2 Diabetic Patients?
Official title: Are Audiovisual Educational Materials Superior to Printed Educational Materials in Improving Insulin Awareness Among Saudi Type 2 Diabetic Patients in Primary Care Setting?
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus
Keywords: Diabetic Education
audiovisual material
Manual material
Lead sponsor: King Abdullah International Medical Research Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-06-04
Enrollment: 126
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 30
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: 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: 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Type 2 diabetic patients
2. Age group from 30 to 70 years
3. A1c = 8 mg/dL or above
4. Both genders

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Pregnant women
2. Blindness or profound vision loss
3. Severe mental problems e.g. Psychosis

Primary outcomes:
measure: compare the impact of audiovisual educational materials verses printed educational materials
timeFrame: 6 weeks
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Locations:
city: Riyadh
country: Saudi Arabia
facility: King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
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