Educational Technology to Enhance Diabetes Care - Retention Study

This study has been completed.

Sponsors and Collaborators:	University of California, Los Angeles Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Information provided by:	University of California, Los Angeles
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00470860

Purpose

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	Intervention
Diabetes Mellitus	Behavioral: Participation in LOFTS online tutorial

MedlinePlus related topics: Diabetes

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Randomized, Open Label, Dose Comparison, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study

Further study details as provided by University of California, Los Angeles:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Knowledge related to blood pressure and lipid management for diabetes patients [ Time Frame: Up to 8 weeks ]

Enrollment:	105
Study Start Date:	December 2004
Study Completion Date:	August 2005

Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Family medicine residents (physicians in training)
Internal medicine residents (physicians in training)

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00470860

Locations

United States, California
UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
Charles R. Drew University
Los Angeles, California, United States, 90059

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

More Information

Study ID Numbers:	G04-07-038-02
Study First Received:	May 7, 2007
Last Updated:	May 7, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00470860
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Metabolic Diseases
Diabetes Mellitus
Endocrine System Diseases
Endocrinopathy

Metabolic disorder
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Urinary Retention

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 14, 2009