Empowerment-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (ECAM)

Chang Gung University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes

Treatments: Other: Experimental: Empowerment Application for CAM Health Education; Other: Written Paper for CAM Health Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT06317584

NMRPF3M0042

Details and patient eligibility

About

This phase study will use a randomized trial method to evaluate the performance of the ECAM educational app in the promotion of CAM health literacy and communication among patients with diabetes.

Full description

The objectives of this phase study are to (1) implement the ECAM educational app to empower patients with diabetes in their management of diabetes alongside CAM use; (2) examine the impact of the ECAM educational app on patient empowerment, CAM health literacy, risk management of CAM use, CAM communication and diabetes quality of life in patients with diabetes; and (3) collect feedback from both patients and nurses on how to improve the ECAM educational app for dissemination and implementation.

Enrollment: 88 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• People over the age of 20
• diagnosis of diabetes at least 12 months before the interview; and
• The use of CAM at least 3 months
• Sufficient mental ability to understand the informed consent form and sign it.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants will be excluded by an assistant researcher if they serious physical condition and hard of hearing and seeing.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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88 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Empowerment Application for CAM Health Education.

Experimental group

Description:

Using empowerment software applications for complementary and alternative therapy education, explaining the risk factors that need to be considered, and teaching the use of the assistive tool of the empowerment software application

Treatment:

Other: Experimental: Empowerment Application for CAM Health Education

Written Paper for CAM Health Education.

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Using written paper for complementary and alternative therapy education, explaining the risk factors that need to be considered

Treatment:

Other: Written Paper for CAM Health Education