Mobile Application For Educating Diabetics About Foot Care

Istanbul Medeniyet University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetic Foot, Mobile Application, Patient Education

Treatments: Other: Diabetic foot education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04265469

42432568

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: Our aim was to develop a training program on the mobile application and to assess the effect of this training on the participants' knowledge about foot care, their self-efficacy and their behavior levels.

Full description

The universe of this randomized controlled study consisted of 130 patients who had presented to a training and research hospital in Istanbul. The data were collected during the period March-September 2017 with an Information Form, the Diabetic Foot Knowledge Scale, Diabetic Foot Care Self-efficacy Scale, Foot Self-care Behavior Scale and a Feedback Form on the Mobile Application Training.

Enrollment: 130 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosed as a Type 2 diabetic according to ADA criteria at least six months prior to the study,
• being 18 years of age and over,
• being literate and fluent in Turkish,
• not having an active foot ulcer,
• owning and being able to operate a smart phone,
• not having any communication or mental problems,
• consenting to participating in the research.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with advanced retinopathy and those wishing to withdraw from the research were excluded from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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130 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients with diabetics get mobile education

Experimental group

Description:

Patients with diabetics get mobile education

Treatment:

Other: Diabetic foot education

Patients with diabetics

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients with diabetics