Educational Technology to Enhance Diabetes Care - Retention Study

• Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT00470860
• Collaborator: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Other)
• Enrollment: 105
• Locations: 2
• Duration (Months): 8
• Patients Per Site: 52.5
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 6.6

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This study mapped the time course of forgetting among resident physicians after they use an online learning exercise covering principles of diabetes care. Participants took a pre-test followed by an online tutorial covering aspects of diabetes care. They then completed a post-test on the same topics after a randomly-assigned time delay from 0 to 55 days. We hypothesized that post-test scores after these different time delays would decline following a curvilinear relationship with increasing time. This understanding of forgetting will inform our selection of a time for delivering reinforcement exercises in future educational studies among physicians.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Diabetes Mellitus	Behavioral: Participation in LOFTS online tutorial	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 105 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Study Start Date: Dec 1, 2004
• Actual Study Completion Date: Aug 1, 2005

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Knowledge related to blood pressure and lipid management for diabetes patients [Up to 8 weeks]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: N/A and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• Family medicine residents (physicians in training)

• Internal medicine residents (physicians in training)

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Charles R. Drew University	Los Angeles	California	United States	90059
2	UCLA Medical Center	Los Angeles	California	United States	90095

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of California, Los Angeles
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Douglas S Bell, MD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00470860
• Other Study ID Numbers: G04-07-038-02
• First Posted: May 8, 2007
• Last Update Posted: May 8, 2007
• Last Verified: May 1, 2007

Study Results

No Results Posted as of May 8, 2007