Teach-Back Educational Method On Diabetes Knowledge Level

Ataturk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Empowerment

Treatments: Behavioral: Teach-back educational method

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04509856

YaseminC

Details and patient eligibility

About

It was aimed to research the effect of teach-back educational method on diabetes knowledge level and clinical parameters in type 2 diabetes patients undergoing insulin therapy. This is a randomized-controlled trial. Teach-back method will used for intervention group, routin diabetes education will used for control group. The primary outcome is diabetes knowledge levels (DKL), and secondary outcome is clinical patameters (fasting blood glucose, HbA1c, blood pressure). DKL and clinical parameters will measured and compared between two groups before and three months after the interventions.

Enrollment: 130 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To have Type 2 Diabetes
• To be over 18 years old
• Not have any barriers in understanding and speaking Turkish
• Who started insulin treatment for the first time

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with a diagnosis of dementia
• To have vision or hearing loss

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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130 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Routine diabetes education will given to the patients included in the Control Group by a diabetes education nurse. The diabetes education nurse has been working for 10 years in the same center.

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention Group will take their diabetes education by teach-back educational strategy.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Teach-back educational method