Effectiveness of Educational Intervention on Footcare Among Individuals Having Type 2 Diabetes at Slums of Karachi, Pakistan.

SINA Health Education and Welfare Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Foot Ulcer, Diabetic; Educational Intervention; Foot Care; Diabetic Foot; Foot Cellulitis

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-care behavior to promote foot care through educational guidance among individual with diabetes

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06358846

00004

Details and patient eligibility

About

There are multiple studies conducted in Pakistan that supports the topic of foot care knowledge among individual with type 2 diabetes but all are descriptive cross-sectional studies and investigators cannot develop cause effect relationship out of it. Secondly, there is a lack of documented research on the foot care knowledge shown by people with T2D residing in the slums of Karachi. In order to assess the knowledge intervention among the individual having T2D through qualified diabetes educators and pictorial educational pamphlet along with the standard care of treatment. Consequently, it may aid in the development of effective methods aimed at mitigating foot-related complications among this specific population. Individuals diagnosed with diabetes are required to engage in proactive and structured self-care activities by providing the foot care knowledge in order to effectively manage their condition and mitigate the risk of potential complications. The incorporation of health-deviation knowledge and activities into routine is crucial.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1. Patients aged 18 years or older.
• Patients who are registered at designated SINA clinic and clinical and biochemical diagnosis of DM for at least six months
• Patients who are able to understand Urdu language will be included in the study
• Patients who are voluntarily participated the study will be included.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients come with recurrent foot ulcers or gangrene.
• History of amputation
• Patient live in other than designated slums location.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

standard care advice

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will simply get standard advice from clinicians at the clinic during consultations.

standard care advice+ structured training through pictures containing learning pamphlet

Experimental group

Description:

Interventional group will receive standard advice from clinician along with the structured training from qualified diabetes' educator through pictures containing learning pamphlet

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-care behavior to promote foot care through educational guidance among individual with diabetes