Diabetic Foot, Mobile Application, Patient Education
Conditions
Keywords
Diabetic foot, mobile application, patient education
Brief summary
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.
Detailed 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.
Interventions
Give Diabetic foot education via mobile phone
Sponsors
Istanbul Medeniyet University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
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.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| their self-efficacy | change from baseline self efficiancy at week 4. | Diabetic Foot Care Self-efficacy Scale is a scale that determines a diabetic individual's perception of self-efficacy with respect to executing diabetic foot care activities. Responses to this nine-item 10-point Likert-type of questionnaire are assessed on a visual scale that ranges from I'm absolutely unsure=0 to I'm very sure=10. The lowest possible score on the scale is 0; the highest is 100. |
| Diabetes Foot Knowledge | change from baseline Diabetes Foot Knowledge at week 4. | Diabetes Foot Knowledge Questionnaire (DFKQ) were developed by Garcia et al. as a 5-item instrument that assesses the level of knowledge patients have about foot care. The questionnaire is evaluated on the basis of the total score. An increase in the score indicates that the diabetic individual has an increased level of knowledge about foot care |
| Foot Self-care Behavior | change from baseline Foot Self-care Behavior at week 4. | Foot Self-care Behavior Scale assesses self-efficacy behavior in the context of foot care. It is a 16-item 5-point Likert-type of scale in which responses are assessed as I do this: 1=Never, 2=Occasionally, 3=Sometimes, 4=Frequently, 5=Always. The lowest possible score on the scale is 16; the highest is 80 |
Outcome results
None listed