Improving the management of diabetes and its eye problems in India
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Diabetes and diabetic retinopathyNutritional, Metabolic, EndocrineDiabetes mellitus
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN16720335
- Lead Sponsor
- Kurseong Sub-Divisional Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 110
Inclusion Criteria
1. Fasting blood sugar levels of =126 mg/dL
2. Patients diagnosed to have type 2 diabetes by a doctor
3. Patients who are able to provide informed written consent
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients with history of having attended diabetic education workshops/seminars
2. Patients who are unable to provide informed written consent
3. Patients self-reporting to have significantly impaired memory functions and other conditions that affect capacity to give consent such as dementia, stroke, Huntingdon’s disease, etc
4. Patients with sudden, painful loss of vision
5. More than one patients from the same family
6. Patients with type 1 or gestational diabetes
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Fasting blood sugar and blood pressure levels measured using lab tests at the first and follow up visits after 3 and 6 months<br> 2. Attendance for diabetic eye check-up recorded using hospital records or participants medical files at the follow-up visits<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Body mass index (BMI) obtained by measuring heights and weights at baseline and follow-up visits after 3 and 6 months<br> 2. Knowledge and awareness of diabetes and its control, healthy lifestyle and diet, measured using a questionnaire at baseline and follow-up visits after 3 and 6 months<br>