NCT02102958

Nonvisual Foot Examination for People With Diabetes and Visual Impairment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 57 (actual)
• Sponsor: Case Western Reserve University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Because people who have both diabetes and visual impairment have high risk for foot problems, prevention of ulcers and amputation is a high priority. Usual care in diabetes self-management education (DSME) is to teach them to seek sighted assistance for regular foot examination, yet clinical experience suggests that this advice is seldom heeded. One possible solution is to teach use of the nonvisual senses of touch and smell for a systematic, thorough foot self-examination. The purpose of this pilot study was to compare the efficacy, acceptability, and feasibility of nonvisual foot examination with usual care (examination of the visually impaired person's feet by a sighted family member or friend).

Conditions

• Diabetes
• Visual Impairment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	DSME with Nonvisual Foot Examination	Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) with Nonvisual Foot Examination included comprehensive DSME taught by Certified Diabetes Educators that included instruction in nonvisual self-examination of feet using the senses of touch and smell.
BEHAVIORAL	DSME with Usual Foot Examination Instruction	DSME with usual foot examination instruction was comprehensive diabetes self management education taught by Certified Diabetes Educators that included usual care instructions for examination for feet at home by visually impaired persons, i.e., to have a sighted person check the feet regularly.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-07-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2014-04-03
• Last updated: 2023-11-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States