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NCT Number: NCT02159417

Therapeutic Education of the Patients Diabetics Imprisoned at the Paris Jail

A lot of data show that therapeutic education is beneficial for diabetic patients. In the French jails, there are very few programs of therapeutic education while this population is usually precarious with no access at care sector before the jail.

The purpose of this study is to determinate if the therapeutic education of the diabetic patients is possible in the Paris jail "La Santé".

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Hôpital COCHIN, Paris, France

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About this study

The Paris jail "La Santé" welcomes 600 men who stay 5 month on average. Each year, there are between 30 to 40 diabetic patients. In the jail there's a sanitary unit who is a unit of internal medicine of Cochin hospital. This unit includes nurses, pharmacists and medical doctors.

We propose to include in this study all diabetic patients (type 1 and 2) with the realization of a consultation of educational diagnosis, followed by the participation for every patient to 4 educational collective workshops therapeutic (knowledge of the disease, food, physical Activity and care of feet, the therapeutics)

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Male patient detained in the MAPLS of more than 18 years
  • Patient prisoner in the MAPLS for more than 15 days
  • Patient follow-up for a diabetes of type 1 or type 2
  • Patient informed about the study and not having opposed to this one
  • Patient taken out of the disciplinary district which had previously been included for this motive

Exclusion criteria

  • Patient considered incapable by the investigator to follow an ETP program
  • Patient having a bad understanding of the spoken French language
  • Patient whose duration of confinement known about the MAPLS is strictly lower than 1 month in the inclusion during the year 2013/2014
  • Patient prisoner in the district of isolation
  • Patient prisoner in the disciplinary district in the inclusion
  • Patient prohibition to communicate with another prisoner already registered on the session to come

Treatment and study plan

Therapeutic education

Other

Realization of a consultation of educational diagnosis, followed by the participation for every patient to 4 educational collective workshops therapeutic:

  • Knowledge of the disease
  • Food
  • Physical Activity and care of feet
  • The therapeutics

Other names: Intensive training individual and collective teaching

Primary outcomes

  1. The feasibility of the application of the action ETP in the MAPLS

    Time frame: 3 months

    Rate of participation to at least two therapeutic workshops

Secondary outcomes

  1. Estimation of the satisfaction of the prisoners and the nursing after participation of educational therapeutic workshops

    Time frame: 3 months

    To fill in an auto-questionnaire by means of the scale of Likert in 5 points

  2. biomedical parameters: HbA1c and IMC

    Time frame: 3 months

    Clinical evolution of the patients

  3. The number of hours all in all, for all the activities ETP and by categories of tasks

    Time frame: 3 months

    To evaluate of the mobilized resources

  4. The satisfaction of the staffs as for the implementation and the realization of the experiment

    Time frame: 3 months

    to evaluate of the mobilized resources

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Other

Collaborators

  • URC-CIC Paris Descartes Necker Cochin

Registry information

Official study title

Feasibility of the Therapeutic Education of the Patients Diabetics Imprisoned at the Paris Jail "La Santé" (Maison d'arrêt Paris La Santé)"

Acronym: EPRIDIA

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2015
First posted
Jun 9, 2014
Registry last updated
Nov 20, 2025

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