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

[Mike Freeman]

Fello listers:

Ms. Williams has so far only received answers from five or six 
volunteers to take part in the study described below designed to 
demonstrate the efficacy of use of insulin pens by the blind. She needs 
more volunteers. If you have not already done so, I urge you to contact 
Ms. Wiliams and volunteer for the study which will be conducted at the 
NFB national convention in Detroit. It's a good way to demonstrate in 
concrete fashion that we, the blind, can use insulin pens as safely and 
accurately as can the sighted.

Blind diabetics arise: you have nothing to lose but prejudice!

Mike Freeman, President
Diabetes Action Network
National Federation of the Blind

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ann Williams" <clevelandann at sbcglobal.net>
To: <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 1:31 PM
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Insulin pen study at the NFB Convention






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



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