Diabetes Mellitus, Hypoglycemia, Hypoglycemia Acute, Hypoglycemia Unawareness
Conditions
Keywords
Telehealth, Emergency Medicine, Paramedicine, Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, Telecoaching
Brief summary
This study aims to standardize and evaluate the benefits of the Prevention to Intervention program offered by the Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service. This will accomplished by standardizing the educational materials used, offering phone based follow-up and pre-post data collection.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALHypoglycemia Education
Two in-person visits to the home of the participant and 4 phone calls will be conducted to provided education on prevention of hypoglycemia.
Sponsors
Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
Single arm pre-post study.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 64 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. Be a citizen of Birmingham 2. Be 18 years or older 3. Receive Dextrose-50 IV (intravenous treatment provided by EMS personnel for hypoglycemia) 4. Understand and speak English
Exclusion criteria
a) Enrolled currently in any diabetes related educational programs
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fear of Hypoglycemia | Through study completion, an average of 8 weeks | One of the most important impact of hypoglycemia, is non-compliance to diabetes treatment due to the fear of hypoglycemia. This would be measured using the Hypoglycemia Scale: FH-15 scale. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Self Efficacy | Pre and Post (after 8 weeks)Through study completion, an average of 8 weeks | Measured using the Perceived Diabetes Self-Management Scale. |
| Knowledge of Diabetes | Through study completion, an average of 8 weeks | Measured using the The Knowledge in Low Literacy in Diabetes Knowledge Assessment Scale |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed