A study to find out the effect of Family focused training and counselling on foot care among people with diabetes in urban area

Completed

• Conditions: Diabetes mellitus,

• Registration Number: CTRI/2019/08/020724
• Lead Sponsor: DR REHANA V R

Brief Summary

This is a randomized,open labelled study to assess the effectiveness of family centered training and counselling in enhancing the foot self care practice in people with diabetes availing services at non-communicable disease OPD of Urban health training center , Pratap nagar, Jodhpur. This was taken as Post Graduate dissertation for the partial fulfillment of MD degree.Participant will be people with diabetes more than 18 years ,those without any history of amputation or active foot problem like foot ulceration,spreading infection,or gangrene.Participants meeting the selection criteria and willing to participate in study will be enlisted from UHTC Pratap nagar and will be randomly assigned to 2 groups with sealed envelops after getting informed consent.For baseline assessment all study participants and family members will be interviewed using a pre-designed semi-structured questionnaire which will include socio-demographic information,questions related to foot self care, diabetic self care etc to assess knowledge and practices. Relevant clinical and treatment parameters would be obtained from clinical records of the patients.Knowledge and involvement of in foot self care by family members would be obtained by questionnaire.For one group family centered training and counselling will be given ,other group will receive standard of care(routine OPD care).After 6 months post intervention, an endline assessment will be done to assess the improvement with same questionnaire and methods. Comparison will be done between end line data of both groups.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Completion: 2019-01-12
• Study Start: 2019-08-14
• Last Update Posted: 2021-07-24

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 108

Inclusion Criteria

people with diabetes on treatment, attending NCD OPD Urban health centre ,Pratap nagar.

Exclusion Criteria

those with history of amputation those with active foot problems like ulceration ,spreading infections, critical limb ischaemia or gangrene.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knowledge indicators regarding foot self care in people with diabetes and their family members	at baseline and 6month post intervention
Foot self care practice indicators in people with diabetes	at baseline and 6month post intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Indicators of selfcare practices for diabetes	Characteristics involvement of family members in foot self care

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Shree Swami Prabuthanand Hospital; 🇮🇳 Jodhpur, RAJASTHAN, India

Shree Swami Prabuthanand Hospital

🇮🇳Jodhpur, RAJASTHAN, India

Rehana V R

Principal investigator

9495349510

dr.rehanavr@gmail.com