Impact of Diabetes Continuing Education on Primary Health Care Physicians' Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Diabete Mellitus
• Interventions: Behavioral: Diabetes Continuing Education Intervention

• Registration Number: NCT04027062
• Lead Sponsor: King Khalid University

Brief Summary

The main objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of a continuing education program on the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of primary health care physicians towards a high quality of diabetes care in Aseer region, Saudi Arabia.

Detailed Description

Background:

Diabetes is one of the rapidly growing chronic health conditions across the world. Healthcare providers still continue to face difficulties in delivering optimal care and education worldwide. Thus, continuing education is needed to improve Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of physicians.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a continuing education (CE) program on the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of primary health care physicians (HCPs) towards a high quality of diabetes care.

Design and Methods:

This is a quasi-experimental design composed of pre-test post-test uncontrolled experimental design. The study will include all PHC physicians registered in health sectors of Abha and Khamis Musheet cities, Aseer Region. The physicians will be invited to attend a CE program. All participants will fill out a questionnaire before and after the intervention. The change in knowledge and attitudes of the participants will be measured at the end of the program. After 4 months, the practice of physicians will be assessed through retrospective review of patient's files.

Impact:

Education programs could positively influence the knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of healthcare workers toward a high quality of diabetes care, which in turn plays a major role in improving clinical outcomes.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2019-07
• Study First Submitted: 2019-07-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-07-18
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-07-18
• Study First Posted: 2019-07-19
• Last Update Posted: 2019-07-19
• Study Start: 2019-08-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-12-01
• Study Completion: 2020-01-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 65

Inclusion Criteria

• all PHC physicians registered in health sectors of Abha and Khamis musheet cities, Aseer Region
• willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study

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Exclusion Criteria

• physicians worked at hospital
• other health care professional (non-physicians)

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Diabetes Continuing Education Program	Diabetes Continuing Education Intervention	the physicians will be assessed before and after intervention the intervention group will be enrolled to the intervention program proposed to be (lecture + interactive workshop + group discussion + role play)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Percent of change of knowledge, attitude and practice of primary healthcare physicians	4 months	the primary outcome will be the difference between pre- and post-intervention regarding knowledge, attitude and practice of primary healthcare physicians.; the knowledge and attitude will be assessed by questionnaire while the practice will be assessed through a retrospective review of patient's files.