NCT03023228

Diabetes To Go: An Inpatient Diabetes Survival Skills Education Program

Diabetes To Go: A Pilot Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy Evaluation of an Inpatient Diabetes Self-management Survival Skills Education Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 125 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medstar Health Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A learner-centered diabetes survival skills self-management education program was provided to adults with uncontrolled diabetes in the hospital and generated preliminary evidence of impact on medication adherence and a trend toward reduction in hospital and emergency department admissions.

Detailed description

This study was a prospective, nonrandomized pilot study conducted among adults with uncontrolled diabetes admitted to the Medicine Service of an urban tertiary teaching hospital were consented to participate in a pilot study which provided diabetes survival skills education. Based on knowledge deficits identified on a diabetes knowledge pre-test the patient was directed to view video content corresponding to those deficiencies and content on sick days and diabetes complications. Evaluation measures were diabetes knowledge, medication adherence, and hospital admissions plus emergency department visits at and/or 3months before baseline and at 2 weeks and 3 months post-discharge. There was improvement in diabetes knowledge and medication adherence, which was sustained to 3 months. A trend was observed toward reduction in emergency department and/or hospital admissions from 3 months pre-intervention to 3 months post-discharge for uncontrolled diabetes. This knowledge-based program successfully provided survival skills education to hospital patients with uncontrolled diabetes and demonstrated preliminary evidence of a positive impact on medication adherence and a trend toward reduction in hospital and emergency department admissions.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus
• Hyperglycemia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	diabetes self-management education	1-group, pre-test/post-test design feasibility and preliminary efficacy evaluation of diabetes survival skills self-management education delivered at the hospital bedside.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-05-01
• Primary completion: 2011-11-01
• Completion: 2011-11-01
• First posted: 2017-01-18
• Last updated: 2020-08-18