Feet Can Last a Lifetime (NIDDK)

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases kit to reduce lower-limb amputations in people with diabetes. The first printing carried a feedback form for health care providers; their comments led to a 1997 revision that was pretested again with practitioners and added easy-to-read patient materials.

Years: 1995–now
Country: United States
Topic: Diabetes
Asks people to: Start
Strategy: Self efficacy Trusted messenger
Channel: Clinical setting Print
Audience: Adults Clinicians
Health care providers, and from 1997 their patients with diabetes

Evidence

NoneUnknown

No outcome data in the Pink Book. Its account (p. 115): provider feedback from the first printing led to a 1997 revision, 'pretested extensively with practitioners for technical accuracy, usefulness, and clarity', which added a patient brochure, foot-care tip sheet and to-do list.

Sponsor (who paid)

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Federal government

Credits (who made it)

Not recorded yet.

Sources

National Cancer Institute. Making Health Communication Programs Work ("Pink Book"), revised edition, 2002, p. 115 reference · 2002

Research notes

Created 2026-10-23 from a full reading of the Pink Book (docs/pink-book.md, issue #43). Page numbers are the book's printed pages. A later National Diabetes Education Program edition of the provider guide says the kit was first printed in 1998 (seen in search results), which conflicts with the book's 1995; the 1998 printing may be the revised kit under NDEP. Check against NIDDK records.

Record cases/niddk-feet-can-last-a-lifetime.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign