Effect of Using Pictograms on Improving Depression and Anxiety Among Type 2 Diabetic Patients.

University of Jordan

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: picograms-enriched label

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05822349

MOH/REC/2022/411

Details and patient eligibility

About

we will study the impact of using pictograms on improving depression and anxiety among type 2 diabetic patients, we suppose that patients who received pictograms-enriched labels will have lower levels of depression and anxiety in comparison with those who will not receive after three month follow-up evaluation.

Enrollment: 204 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants are eligible if they are Jordanian adults, aged 18 or older, who have been clinically diagnosed with T2DM for at least 6 months, having low health literacy (Individuals who obtained 66 or lower scores in the full TOFHLA instrument are considered as individuals with "low literacy" in the study) [24], come personally for the refill.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are unable to communicate verbally (aphasic or with hearing impairment), those with any visual, learning disabilities, and psychological or hepatorenal disease (according to the clinical diagnosis by a physician), and those deemed too ill or frail to attend the clinic, and who have participated in other diabetes education research projects will be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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204 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

intervention group

Active Comparator group

Description:

they will receive the usual diabetes care routine plus a pictogram-enriched label.

Treatment:

Behavioral: picograms-enriched label

control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

they will receive the usual diabetes care routine.

Treatment:

Behavioral: picograms-enriched label