Improving Care for Primary Care Patients With Diabetes and Poor Literacy and Numeracy Skills
- Study Details
- Tabular View
- No Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
Results of the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) suggest that over 90 million adult Americans have poor quantitative skills. Numeracy, the ability to understand and use numbers and math skills in daily life, may be particularly important to patients with diabetes because caring for diabetes often requires self-management skills that rely on the daily application of math skills, such as counting carbohydrates, interpreting blood glucose monitoring, applying sliding scale insulin regimens, and calculating insulin to carbohydrate ratios. Presumably diabetes patients with poor numeracy have more difficulty with self-management and are at risk for poorer clinical outcomes, but to date, there are no published studies that rigorously examine the role of numeracy in diabetes. We have recently completed the initial development of a new scale to measure numeracy in patients with diabetes: the Diabetes Numeracy Test (DNT).
The aim of this research will be to perform a.
- A1C [ Time Frame: 3 and 6 months ]
- Patient self-management behaviors [ Time Frame: 3 and 6 months ]
- Patient knowledge [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Patient satisfaction [.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00469105
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00469105
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Vanderbilt University:
Additional relevant MeSH terms: