[Diabetes-talk] Insulin pen study at the NFB Convention

[Ann Williams]

If
you are attending the 2009 NFB Convention and you have had diabetes for more
than one year, you are invited to participate in a research study about the
accuracy of dosing with an insulin pen after receiving detailed
instructions.  For this study, I need to
recruit 40 blind people with diabetes and 40 sighted people with diabetes.

The
study will involve the following steps:

Before
     the convention, I will call you and ask you several questions to make sure
     you meet the requirements of the study.At
     the convention, you will need to sign an informed consent form.You
     will be given an appointment time to come to the study room.  All blind people in this study will listen
     to a recording of audio instructions in the use of an insulin pen, and
     sighted people in this study will look at visual instructions.  Everyone will have a chance to handle a
     pen and pen supplies, and may take as much time with the instructions,
     pens, and supplies as they wish, until they feel confident that they know
     how to use the pen.  Each
     person will be asked deliver ten specific doses of insulin into an
     injection ball – a rubber ball commonly used to teach insulin injections.A
     research assistant will weigh the injection ball immediately before and
     immediately after delivery of the insulin, to find out exactly how much
     insulin was delivered.  The
     assistant will keep a record of all doses delivered.

Please note: 
If you participate in this study, you will not inject insulin into
yourself.  You will only learn how to use
a pen and inject doses into an injection ball. 

You
will receive no direct benefits for participating in the study.

As
a way of thanking you for your time and participation in the feasibility study,
you will receive a $10 gift certificate for WalMart after you complete steps
1-5 outlined above.  If you do not
complete steps 1-5, you will not receive the gift card.

You
may decide that you do not want to participate in this study for any reason at
all, and you do not need to explain your reason.  This would not affect you negatively in any
way.  In particular, your decision would
not affect your relationship with the NFB, with Case Western Reserve
University, or with the researcher, Ann Williams.

Are
you willing to participate in this study? 
Or do you have further questions about this study?  If so, please contact the researcher:

Ann S. Williams,
PhD, RN, CDE

Email: ann.s.williams at case.edu 

Case Western
Reserve University

Cleveland,
Ohio  44106

Phone:  216-368-1704