Approaches to Foot Complication Prevention: A Survey of Diabetes Educators

The purpose of the survey is to assess the knowledge base, role in management, and resources available to diabetes educators regarding foot complication prevention within a variety of healthcare settings.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Foot Ulcer, Diabetic
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: No intervention

Detailed Description

Podimetrics is a care management company with a temperature-based foot monitoring solution to help prevent diabetic foot ulcers, one of the most debilitating and costly complications of diabetes.

Diabetes educators within the AADE/ADCES encompass a wide array of medical disciplines including nurses, physicians, dieticians, and pharmacists. Diabetes researchers want to better understand the degree to which diabetic foot care and prevention is incorporated into the diabetes education curriculum. To what extent are these topics discussed between diabetes educators and the patients they interact with? And how comfortable are educators in discussing these topics?

To gain insight into these questions Podimetrics researchers have designed an online questionnaire survey for completion by AADE members. The general purpose of the survey is to assess the knowledge base, role in management, and resources available to diabetes educators regarding foot complication prevention within a variety of healthcare settings.

The specific aim is to collect generalizable data to characterize the current state of diabetic foot education and identify any gaps in knowledge that may be present. Furthermore, if it is found that educators are lacking important knowledge which supports ample diabetic foot health education, approaches to bridge these gaps may be suggested through published recommendations.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 6000

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Massachusetts
    • Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, 02144
      • Podimetrics,Inc.

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Respondents are members of the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) recruited via an introductory email sent out by the AADE on behalf of Podimetrics.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) member with accurate email address on file with the AADE.

Exclusion Criteria:

• AADE member with an inability to read English.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Survey Respondents; Respondents are members of the American Association of Diabetes Educators recruited via an introductory email sent out by the AADE on behalf of Podimetrics.	Other: No intervention; No intervention

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Current state of diabetic foot care education and knowledge base among diabetic educators	Survey of diabetic foot care recommendations, treatment options, risk classifications, role in management, and resources available to diabetes educators regarding foot complication prevention within a variety of healthcare settings.	One year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Podimetrics, Inc.
• Collaborators: American Association of Diabetes Educators

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): June 13, 2020
• Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED): May 13, 2021
• Study Completion (ANTICIPATED): May 13, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 18, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 20, 2020
• First Posted (ACTUAL): May 22, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): August 31, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 28, 2020
• Last Verified: August 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Diabetes; Diabetes Mellitus; Ulcer; Foot Diseases; Diabetic Foot; Diabetic Neuropathies; Diabetes Education; Care recommendation; Diabetes Educator; Diabetes Complication; Care and treatment
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Cardiovascular Diseases; Vascular Diseases; Skin Diseases; Endocrine System Diseases; Diabetic Angiopathies; Leg Ulcer; Skin Ulcer; Diabetes Complications; Diabetes Mellitus; Diabetic Neuropathies; Foot Diseases; Diabetic Foot; Foot Ulcer
• Other Study ID Numbers: A20-018-682

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: To protect the respondent's identity, respondent name and email address will not be recorded within the survey results. No demographic data other than relevant profession, work environment, and number of years as a certified educator will be collected. Additionally, the AADE will not share respondent's name or email addresses with Podimetrics, and the AADE will not have access to the individual survey results, effectively detaching individual results from respondents' identities.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No