Are Audiovisual Materials Superior to Printed Materials in Improving Awareness Among Type 2 Diabetic Patients? (SA)
Are Audiovisual Educational Materials Superior to Printed Educational Materials in Improving Insulin Awareness Among Saudi Type 2 Diabetic Patients in Primary Care Setting?
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
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.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 14611
- King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
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
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: control group
This group received a printed material "brochure" as an educational material
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an educational brochure which has content of knowledge, attitude, behavior, and barriers towards insulin theray.
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Experimental: intervention group
This group received an audiovisual material "video" as an educational material
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an educational video which has content of knowledge, attitude, behavior, and barriers towards insulin therapy.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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compare the impact of audiovisual educational materials verses printed educational materials
Time Frame: 6 weeks
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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
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6 weeks
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Collaborators and Investigators
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- KingAbdullahIMRC
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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