Actively Recruiting
Optimized Care of People With Diabetes and Foot Complication in Primary Care
Led by Sahlgrenska University Hospital · Updated on 2024-04-17
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Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
365 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
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Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Lead Sponsor
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Vastra Gotaland Region
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The goal of this observational study is to create and evaluate and new management, by using eHealth tools, to prevent diabetic foot ulcers. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Validation a. Is a method for foot assessment, that uses eHealth tools, valid regarding its usefulness? b. Is a method for foot assessment, that uses eHealth tools, reliable regarding the generated risk stratification? 2. Mapping 1. How do health care professionals and patients with diabetes experience that the future foot examination should be designed? 2. What experiences have health care professionals and patients with diabetes to use an eHealth tool supporting the annual foot examination? 3. Interviews - to use a paper format supporting a structured foot assessment a. How do health care professionals experience to use a structured foot form, in paper form? 4. Interviews - footwear a. What factors that influence how patients with diabetes choose their footwear? 5. Interviews - usability test of using an eHealth tool a. How could a digital eHealth tool be designed? b. How could a digital eHealth solution be implemented, managed and spread in public health care setting? i. Participants will: 1\. fill in questionnaires 2. be interviewed 3. test eHealth solutions supporting the foot examination 6\. Experiences of using an eHealth tool supporting the foot assessment a. How could a digital eHealth tool be designed? 7\. Questionnaires regarding self-perceived quality of life, the experiences of the visit at the care unit, transportation to the care unit. a. Patients that visits care fills in a questionnaire regarding self-perceived quality of life (EQ-5D), a modified version of National Patient Survey, the diabetes questionnaire and a questionnaire regarding their travels and time for travels to and from the visit to the care unit. 8\. Critical evaluation of complexity 1. Exists complexity in the development, test, management, spread and sustain of an eHealth tool supporting foot examination and self-care of the feet in diabetes. 2. How could a digital eHealth solution be implemented, managed and spread in public health care setting? 9\. Long term effect a. What is the long-term effect of using an eHealth tools supporting a structured foot examination?
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Optimized Care of People With Diabetes and Foot Complication in Primary Care
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Persons with diabetes being treated in Region Västra Götaland
- Understand spoken and written Swedish
- Healthcare professionals working with patients with diabetes having foot complications
- Healthcare professionals working in Region Västra Götaland
- Healthcare professionals understand spoken and written Swedish
You will not qualify if you...
- Do not understand spoken and written Swedish
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
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Departmetn of Prosthetics & Orthotics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Gothenburg, Sweden, 41285
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
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Ulla Hellstrand Tang, PhD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Masking
N/A
Allocation
N/A
Model
N/A
Primary Purpose
N/A
Number of Arms
2
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