Mobile Health App to Reduce Diabetes in Latina Women

Environment and Health Group

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 1

Conditions

Gestational Diabetes

Treatments

Behavioral: Mobile health app called "Hola Bebe"

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT04149054

R44 MD009454A

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed project sought to develop a culturally- and individually-tailored, plain-language Spanish/English mobile phone intervention for Latinas with prior gestational diabetes (GDM). The intervention is based on earlier in-person to online modification of the CDC-funded Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), for women with prior GDM led by co-investigator Dr. Ellen Seely of Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Full description

The specific aims of the study were as follows:

Primary Aim 1: Develop a culturally-tailored mobile phone intervention for Latinas with prior GDM based on Brigham & Women's Hospital online DPP.

Primary Aim 2: Conduct a pilot trial of the intervention.

Primary Aim 3:Evaluate implementation feasibility.

Enrollment

18 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

19 to 45 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Latina women
ages 19-45
with prior gestational diabetes by Carpenter and Coustan criteria
within the past 5 year validated by medical record review
own an Android or iOS smartphone.

Exclusion criteria

Diagnosis of pre-pregnancy diabetes(type 1,2, or secondary diabetes)
underlying disease that might interfere with participation in study (e.g.,significant gastrointestinal conditions)
taking certain medications (e.g., glucocorticoids)
pregnancy/undergoing infertility treatment.