NCT04265469

Mobile Application For Educating Diabetics About Foot Care

The Effect of Mobile Application in Foot Care of Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 130 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istanbul Medeniyet University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Purpose: Our aim was to develop a training program on the mobile application and to assess the effect of this training on the participants' knowledge about foot care, their self-efficacy and their behavior levels.

Detailed description

The universe of this randomized controlled study consisted of 130 patients who had presented to a training and research hospital in Istanbul. The data were collected during the period March-September 2017 with an Information Form, the Diabetic Foot Knowledge Scale, Diabetic Foot Care Self-efficacy Scale, Foot Self-care Behavior Scale and a Feedback Form on the Mobile Application Training.

Conditions

• Diabetic Foot, Mobile Application, Patient Education

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Diabetic foot education	Give Diabetic foot education via mobile phone

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-10
• Primary completion: 2017-02-07
• Completion: 2017-11-07
• First posted: 2020-02-11
• Last updated: 2020-02-11