Study	Reason for exclusion
Dargis 1999	Not a randomised controlled study design
Davidson 2000	Not a randomised controlled study design and no educational programme that includes patient education aimed at reducing diabetic foot ulcers
De Weerdt 1991	No educational programme that included patient education aimed at reducing diabetic foot ulcers, and no relevant outcomes reported
Donohoe 2000	No educational programme targeted at people that includes patient education aimed at reducing diabetic foot ulcers
Fresenius 2009	Education initially directed at wound healing. Patient education for preventing ulcer recurrence only offered to participants with healed index lesions
Glasgow 1992	No relevant outcomes reported
Litzelman 1993	Foot care education is part of the comprehensive intervention on foot ulceration but not the main contrast with the control
Litzelman 1997	Not a randomised controlled study design
McCabe 1998	Foot care education is not the main contrast with the control
McMurray 2002	Foot care education is not the main contrast with the control
Nesari 2010	Foot care education is not the main contrast with the control
Pieber 1995	Not a randomised controlled study design
Plank 2003	No educational programme targeted at people that includes patient education aimed at reducing diabetic foot ulcers, and education not the main contrast with the control
Reichard 1993	No educational programme that includes patient education aimed at reducing diabetic foot ulcers
Schiel 2004	Foot care education is not the main contrast with the control
Vinicor 1985	No educational programme that includes patient education aimed at reducing diabetic foot ulcers, and no relevant outcomes reported
Ward 1999	Not a randomised controlled study design
Wooldridge 1996	Not a randomised controlled study design
Zhenghua 2011	Only conference abstract. No full‐text article available.