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Education Nutritional Video for Gestational Diabetics

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Gestational Diabetes
Interventions
Behavioral: Nutritional Video
Registration Number
NCT03859193
Lead Sponsor
Virginia Commonwealth University
Brief Summary

The purpose of this research study is to find out if watching an educational video about nutrition helps participants learn about how different foods affect their blood sugar and how Gestational Diabetes affects pregnancy.

Detailed Description

* Patients diagnosed with gestational diabetes receive standard nutritional counseling at their first high risk clinic visit. All patients agreeing to participate in the study will at this visit fill out a knowledge questionnaire prior to receiving counseling.

* Patients will be randomized into standard counseling or standard counseling plus educational video using block randomization that has been integrated into the Redcap Survey. Once the Initial survey is completed the RedCap program will inform the patient whether they are randomized to Video or NO Video.

* Patients randomized to Video will watch the video will watch the video on a clinic designated computer. Patients randomized to no Video will not watch a video.

* At the next High risk clinic visit one to two weeks later all patients will fill out the same fill out the same questionnaire in addition to the The Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) questionaire.

* English-speaking patients will view the English version of the video, and Spanish-speaking patients will view the Spanish version of the video in either English or the dubbed Spanish version.

* A Spanish version of the patient hand-out will be provided in an amendment, prior to their use with Spanish- speaking patients.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
42
Inclusion Criteria
  • Any diagnosis of Diabetes in Pregnancy
  • Received at least one session of nutritional counseling from the registered dieticians
Exclusion Criteria
  • Age < 18
  • Patients without diagnosis of diabetes

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
VideoNutritional VideoParticipants will watch an Nutritional video at their first high risk visit. Participants will also receive standard nutrition counseling
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change in nutritional knowledgeBaseline to 1 week

Change in nutritional knowledge as measured by 10-item Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Knowledge Questionnaire, each question answered correctly is counted as one towards total score. Maximum score is 10, minimum score is 0.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) questionnaire Score1 week

Respondents are asked to indicate the degree to which each of the items is currently a problem for them, from 0 (not a problem) to 4 (a serious problem). This is a 20 item questionaire and calculates a score of 1-100

Patient Satisfaction with Care1 week

Patient satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 5

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Virginia Commonwealth University

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Richmond, Virginia, United States

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