I Can Do This! Managing My Diabetes

Description

The goals of this study are to: 1. Co-develop a user-friendly word game-based workbook format for patients with diabetes to understand how to manage their diabetes. For this study, the first section of the workbook will be developed to teach carbohydrate management. 2. Assess the feasibility and acceptability of the workbook. 3. Understand the implementation challenges that will be important for improving the workbook and preparing it for larger-scale effectiveness research. Participants will be asked to: * Complete the workbook during their waiting time in the clinic or at home. * Engage in word games designed to teach diabetes management vocabulary and concepts. * Attend follow-up sessions to assess changes in self-efficacy and glycemic control.

Conditions

Diabetes

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The goals of this study are to: 1. Co-develop a user-friendly word game-based workbook format for patients with diabetes to understand how to manage their diabetes. For this study, the first section of the workbook will be developed to teach carbohydrate management. 2. Assess the feasibility and acceptability of the workbook. 3. Understand the implementation challenges that will be important for improving the workbook and preparing it for larger-scale effectiveness research. Participants will be asked to: * Complete the workbook during their waiting time in the clinic or at home. * Engage in word games designed to teach diabetes management vocabulary and concepts. * Attend follow-up sessions to assess changes in self-efficacy and glycemic control.

"I Can Do This! Managing My Diabetes: a Pilot Project Using a Novel Word Game-based Workbook Intervention to Allow People Living with Diabetes to Increase Their Diabetes Self-efficacy"

I Can Do This! Managing My Diabetes

Condition
Diabetes
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Atlanta

Emory Midtown Clinic, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30329

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

  • 1. Patients: adult with diabetes and patient at the Midtown Clinic
  • 2. Caregivers: partner, or caregiver of a patient with diabetes
  • 3. Providers: Physician Assistant (PA), Nurse Practitioner (NP), or MD who cares for patients with diabetes
  • 4. Diabetes educators: diabetes educator
  • 1. Cannot speak/read English
  • 2. Unwilling to participate in group discussion
  • 3. Pregnancy
  • 1. Cannot speak/read English
  • 2. Unwilling to return for a follow-up visit in 3 months
  • 3. Pregnancy

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Emory University,

Catherine Park, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Emory University

Saria Hassan, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Emory University

Study Record Dates

2026-01