Jennifer Rosen, Ilina Rosoklija, Ryan F Walton, Derek J Matoka, Catherine M Seager, Max Maizels, Jane L Holl, Emilie K Johnson
Recommendations to Improve Neonatal Circumcision Training
Hospital pediatrics
health literacy hl patients type 2 diabetes mellitus dm help control disease prevent complications however patients type 2 dm inadequate hl therefore hl must improved study aimed determine effects online infographics improving hl among patients type 2 dm randomized controlled trial conducted july 2022 september 2022 primary care unit songklanagarind hospital thailand 30 patients type 2 dm randomly assigned experimental n 15 three types infographics control n 15 three types pamphlets groups infographics pamphlets distributed weekly via social media platforms stofhla thai version thaifcchl used evaluate hl chisquare fishers exact wilcoxon ranksum ttest paired ttest mcnemars chisquare tests used median age 30 participants 56 years mean duration dm 96 years median hba1c level 75 mg participants 80 adequate hl stofhla whereas 633 adequate hl fcchl participants infographic group inadequate hl stofhla pretest achieved adequate hl meanwhile 50 patients pamphlet group achieved adequate hl regarding fcchl 50 patients infographic group 60 pamphlet group inadequate hl pretest achieved adequate hl however statistical significance achieving adequate hl found either group mean differences sd stofhla intervention 1253 877 p 00007 1013 988 p 0001 infographic pamphlet groups respectively regarding fcchl mean differences sd 347 429 320 291 infographic group p 0003 pamphlet p 0002 groups respectively statistical significance mean difference found groups novel online infographics pamphlets significantly differ achieving adequate hl among patients type 2 dm receive health education disease control complication prevention however interventions increase maintain hl levels online educational media appropriate covid19 pandemic nevertheless largerscale studies performed examine impact dm educational media hl promotion thai clinical trials registry tctr registry id tctr20230425001 date registration 25042023