Adapting Lifestyle Offloading for DFUs

Description

The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to develop and test a tailored occupational therapist-led lifestyle-focused intervention to aid patients in improving diabetic foot ulcer care. The main questions it aims to answer are to determine the acceptability and feasibility of taking a tailored lifestyle-focused approach as part of comprehensive diabetic foot ulcer management. Patient participants with DFUs who require offloading treatment will receive the tailored lifestyle-focused self-management intervention.

Conditions

Diabetic Foot Ulcer, Diabetic Foot

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to develop and test a tailored occupational therapist-led lifestyle-focused intervention to aid patients in improving diabetic foot ulcer care. The main questions it aims to answer are to determine the acceptability and feasibility of taking a tailored lifestyle-focused approach as part of comprehensive diabetic foot ulcer management. Patient participants with DFUs who require offloading treatment will receive the tailored lifestyle-focused self-management intervention.

Adapting a Lifestyle-based Offloading Intervention in Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Adapting Lifestyle Offloading for DFUs

Condition
Diabetic Foot Ulcer
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Los Angeles

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * English speaking
  • * Age 21 years or older
  • * History of active DFU necessitating offloading
  • * Capacity to provide informed consent
  • * Access to telehealth (internet connection and equipment)
  • * Ability to walk independently or with an assistive device
  • * Self-reported life expectancy of more than one year
  • * Self-reported deafness or blindness
  • * history of lower extremity amputation besides toes

Ages Eligible for Study

21 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Southern California,

Study Record Dates

2026-04