Studies a digital tool for foot checks in people with diabetes
Tests an eHealth tool for foot checks in adults with diabetes in primary care.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Optimized Care of People With Diabetes and Foot Complication in Primary Care
Key facts
- Where
- Gothenburg, SwedenSee the site
AI summary: who the study is looking for
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults with diabetes treated in Region Västra Götaland, and for health care workers who care for people with diabetic foot problems. It tests an eHealth tool for foot checks.
- Age
- 18 Years or older
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- People with diabetes. Health care workers must work with patients who have diabetes foot complications.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Cannot understand spoken and written Swedish
- Not treated or working in Region Västra Götaland
Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
Where in Sweden
- Departmetn of Prosthetics & Orthotics, Sahlgrenska University HospitalGothenburg, SwedenContact: Ulla Hellstrand Tang, PhDTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
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- Who runs it
- Sahlgrenska University Hospital
- Trial code
- NCT05692778
- Record updated
- 17 April 2024
- Original description
The goal of this observational study is to create and evaluate and new management, by using eHealth tools, to prevent diabetic foot ulcers. The main questions it aims to answer are:Read full original descriptionShow less
Optimized Care of People With Diabetes and Foot Complication in Primary Care
The goal of this observational study is to create and evaluate and new management, by using eHealth tools, to prevent diabetic foot ulcers. The main questions it aims to answer are:
1. Validation
a. Is a method for foot assessment, that uses eHealth tools, valid regarding its usefulness? b. Is a method for foot assessment, that uses eHealth tools, reliable regarding the generated risk stratification? 2. Mapping
1. How do health care professionals and patients with diabetes experience that the future foot examination should be designed? 2. What experiences have health care professionals and patients with diabetes to use an eHealth tool supporting the annual foot examination? 3. Interviews - to use a paper format supporting a structured foot assessment
a. How do health care professionals experience to use a structured foot form, in paper form? 4. Interviews - footwear
a. What factors that influence how patients with diabetes choose their footwear? 5. Interviews - usability test of using an eHealth tool
a. How could a digital eHealth tool be designed? b. How could a digital eHealth solution be implemented, managed and spread in public health care setting? i. Participants will:
1. fill in questionnaires 2. be interviewed 3. test eHealth solutions supporting the foot examination
6. Experiences of using an eHealth tool supporting the foot assessment
a. How could a digital eHealth tool be designed?
7. Questionnaires regarding self-perceived quality of life, the experiences of the visit at the care unit, transportation to the care unit.
a. Patients that visits care fills in a questionnaire regarding self-perceived quality of life (EQ-5D), a modified version of National Patient Survey, the diabetes questionnaire and a questionnaire regarding their travels and time for travels to and from the visit to the care unit.
8. Critical evaluation of complexity
1. Exists complexity in the development, test, management, spread and sustain of an eHealth tool supporting foot examination and self-care of the feet in diabetes. 2. How could a digital eHealth solution be implemented, managed and spread in public health care setting?
9. Long term effect
a. What is the long-term effect of using an eHealth tools supporting a structured foot examination?
Inclusion: Persons with diabetes being treated in Region Västra Götaland; Understand spoken and written Swedish; Professionals working with patients with diabetes having foot complications; Working in Region Västra Götaland; Understand spoken and written Swedish.
Exclusion: Not understand spoken and written Swedish.