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Diabetic Self-care Education at Primary Health Care in Saudi Arabia: A Pragmatic Randomized Trial in Tabuk

NCT04847856 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 179

Last updated 2022-12-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Diabetes Self-care Education (DSCE) is a formal term used to describe the ongoing process of facilitating the knowledge, skills, and ability necessary for diabetes self-care.

Supporting self-care is a crucial aspect of any health service, especially the one that targeting diabetes. It has shown a positive effect on the clinical, psychological, and behavioural aspects of diabetics. However, culturally adapted educational services that recognize the context should be established and used carefully, as most of the social media and YouTube educational products are not relevant most of the time.

Diabetic patients who receive no education about their diabetes, are four times as likely to develop complications as those who do not. Oppositely, those who attending diabetes education programs are less likely to develop long-term complications.

The core question of the trial is to find an answer to the question: how the Diabetes self-care information, education provided by trained health care educator at primary care is effective in controlling patterns of blood glucose, reducing BMI, and enhancing self-care behaviour among diabetic patients attending chronic care clinic compared to the control group receiving routine care for diabetes.

Conditions

  • Self-care
  • Preventive Care
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Diabetic care Information, education, and communication intervention will be delivered by relevant and trained health animators working in chronic care clinic.

The training sessions and the IEC materials were adapted from John Hopkins University studies on self-care for diabetic patients.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Tabuk

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mustafa K Elnimeiri, MD · Al- Neelain University, Sudan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-03-30
Primary Completion
2021-03-29
Completion
2021-04-10

Countries

  • Saudi Arabia

Study Locations

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