Mobile Health Application for Diabetes

University of South Alabama (USA)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Treatments: Behavioral: capABILITY

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04132089

1122

Details and patient eligibility

About

Creation of a mobile health application for individuals with type II diabetes. This application was designed to improve knowledge, self-efficacy and self-care. The application delivered educational material and provided push notifications (messages). It also allowed for the participants to key in blood glucose levels, carbohydrate consumption and daily exercise.

Full description

capABILITY (the mobile health application) was designed to cover three main diabetes content areas which the investigators call modules: diet (module 1), exercise (module 2) and self-management (module 3) (i.e. medication adherence, glucose monitoring). The length of the study was 9 weeks in duration with three weeks of content per module. Within each module new material was delivered each week through capABILITY. Essentially, every Monday started a new week's worth of educational material that was intended to last until Sunday. Each participant was randomly assigned to either the control group (no triggers), spark trigger group or facilitator trigger group. At the beginning of each module the participants would be randomly assigned to one of the three aforementioned classification groups (this was a 2-Factor Cross-Over Design).

The investigators utilized the Perceived Diabetes Self-Efficacy Scale , Diabetes Knowledge Test developed by Michigan University, and the Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities Measures scale (SDSCA) . All the participants completed the perceived diabetes self-efficacy scale along with the knowledge test and SDSCA Pre/Post intervention. In addition, the participants answered one self-efficacy, knowledge, self-care and goal question at the conclusion of each week within capABILITY.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must be at least 21 years of age or older
• Current diagnosis of type II diabetes
• Must have access to a smartphone and daily internet (WiFi)

Exclusion criteria

• Anyone with gestational diabetes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 3 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

This was the control group for the messaging component of the study (push notifications). These participants only received the mobile health application called capABILITY without messages.

Facilitator Message Group

Other group

Description:

This group of participants received the mobile health application called capABILITY and received three facilitator messages per week. Facilitator messages are designed to help people who lack ability to do something.

Treatment:

Behavioral: capABILITY

Spark Trigger Group

Other group

Description:

This group of participants received the mobile health application called capABILITY and received three spark messages per week. Spark messages are designed to help people who lack ability to do something.

Treatment:

Behavioral: capABILITY