Effectiveness of diabetes footwear fit assessment by people with diabetes and their family or partners: A reliability study
Authors' conclusion
Diabetes footwear assessment shows potential-individuals at risk of foot ulceration and their footwear buddies can be empowered to assess their feet and footwear for length even after just 20 min' training. However, footwear width measurement remains challenging, requiring either a different methodology or tool for people with diabetes to accurately and confidently assess their footwear fit.
Study context
- Population
- People with diabetes aged 18+ and their 'footwear buddies' (partner/family member), trained with foot and footwear measuring tools, written instructions, video and face-to-face training
- Participants
- 20 people
- Comparison
- People with diabetes vs Footwear buddies
- People with diabetesn = 10
- Footwear buddiesn = 10
- Outcome
- Accuracy, reliability and ease of use of participants' foot and footwear measurements vs researchers'
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Foot length and width mean absolute difference (MAD), participants vs researchers
- 3-5 mm
- Average training time
- 6.5 ± 1.6 min
- Foot measurement repeated-measurement Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) (moderate to excellent)
- 0.71-1.00
- Foot measurement ease of use (excellent)
- 7.8/10
- Footwear length MAD, participants vs researchers
- 5 mm
- Footwear length ICC (excellent)
- 0.99-1.00
- Footwear length ease of use
- 7.8/10
- Footwear width MAD (much larger)
- 9-11 mm
- Footwear width ICC
- 0.96
Original publication
Effectiveness of diabetes footwear fit assessment by people with diabetes and their family or partners: A reliability study. Diabet Med. Published 15 June 2025. doi:10.
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