Approaches to Foot Complication Prevention: A Survey of Diabetes Educators

• Conditions: Foot Ulcer, Diabetic
• Interventions: Other: No intervention

• Registration Number: NCT04400344
• Lead Sponsor: Podimetrics, Inc.

Brief Summary

The purpose of the survey is to assess the knowledge base, role in management, and resources available to diabetes educators regarding foot complication prevention within a variety of healthcare settings.

Detailed Description

Podimetrics is a care management company with a temperature-based foot monitoring solution to help prevent diabetic foot ulcers, one of the most debilitating and costly complications of diabetes.

Diabetes educators within the AADE/ADCES encompass a wide array of medical disciplines including nurses, physicians, dieticians, and pharmacists. Diabetes researchers want to better understand the degree to which diabetic foot care and prevention is incorporated into the diabetes education curriculum. To what extent are these topics discussed between diabetes educators and the patients they interact with? And how comfortable are educators in discussing these topics?

To gain insight into these questions Podimetrics researchers have designed an online questionnaire survey for completion by AADE members. The general purpose of the survey is to assess the knowledge base, role in management, and resources available to diabetes educators regarding foot complication prevention within a variety of healthcare settings.

The specific aim is to collect generalizable data to characterize the current state of diabetic foot education and identify any gaps in knowledge that may be present. Furthermore, if it is found that educators are lacking important knowledge which supports ample diabetic foot health education, approaches to bridge these gaps may be suggested through published recommendations.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-05-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-05-20
• Study First Posted: 2020-05-22
• Study Start: 2020-06-13
• Status Verified: 2020-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-08-28
• Last Update Posted: 2020-08-31
• Primary Completion: 2021-05-13
• Study Completion: 2021-05-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 6000

Inclusion Criteria

• American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) member with accurate email address on file with the AADE.

Exclusion Criteria

• AADE member with an inability to read English.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Survey Respondents	No intervention	Respondents are members of the American Association of Diabetes Educators recruited via an introductory email sent out by the AADE on behalf of Podimetrics.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Current state of diabetic foot care education and knowledge base among diabetic educators	One year	Survey of diabetic foot care recommendations, treatment options, risk classifications, role in management, and resources available to diabetes educators regarding foot complication prevention within a variety of healthcare settings.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Podimetrics,Inc.; 🇺🇸 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States