The Effect of Mobile Application Supported Diabetes Education On Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management And Blood Sugar Level

Ege University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Education; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Self-Management; Mobile Applications

Treatments: Other: Mobile Application Supported Nutrition and Diabetes Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05228561

EgeUniversity-ETURHAN-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Diabetes is one of the biggest public health problems of the 21st century. Type 2 diabetes mellitus accounts for more than 90% of all diabetes cases and is the most common type of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes, in which genetic and environmental factors play a role,It is a metabolic disorder in which insulin resistance, decrease in insulin secretion and incretin hormone deficiency are effective in its physiopathology, characterized by polydipsia, polyphagia and polyuria, where the organism cannot adequately benefit from carbohydrates, fats and proteins due to insulin deficiency or defects in the effect of insulin, which requires continuous medical care.

Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, end-stage renal disease, coronary artery disease, stroke and inferior extremity amputations. These complications due to diabetes impair the patient's quality of life and impose social, financial and emotional burdens on both the patient and their family.

Diabetes education should be provided by healthcare professionals in order to ensure that diabetes patients knowledge and skills to prevent complications and provide better self management and self-care.

However, The fact that individuals do not have time to spare for face-to-face health education, the possibility of accessing information in the web environment repeatedly and the lower cost of education in the web environment compared to classical education increases the importance of web-based health education. The widespread use of mobile technologies in recent years has led to the development of new mobile applications related to diabetes.

The disquisition proposal the investigators prepared was created to investigate the effect of mobile application supported diabetes and nutrition education on type 2 diabetes self-management and blood sugar in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients.

In this context, with the development of a mobile application prepared in visual, text and video format to provide diabetes education, the monitoring of blood parameters before and after diabetes education, and the implementation of the Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management Scale, (which consists of 19 items developed in 2020), and type 2 diabetes self-management and the effect on blood sugar will be examined. This study will provide answers to questions about the effectiveness of diabetes education given to Type 2 Diabetes patients via mobile applications on diabetes self-management and blood parameters.

Enrollment: 140 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 64 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients in the endocrinology and metabolism outpatient clinic of Ege University Medical Faculty Hospital.
• Patients with Type 2 DM, between the ages of 18-64, using smart phones and having regular internet will be included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Those who receive regular messages every day will be checked, and those who do not open/read more than 25% of the messages in total will be excluded.
• type 1 diabetes or gestational diabetes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

After the physician involved in the study asks the participants for their biochemical tests (FBC, HbA1C, LDL-C, HDL-C, Total K, Triglyceride), the outpatient dietitian will give routine nutrition education to the participants. In addition, a data collection form including socio-demographic information, health history, nutrition history and height, weight, waist circumference measurements will be made and filled by the thesis student.

Study Group

Experimental group

Description:

The software developed for this research will be downloaded to the phones of the participants in the intervention group. With this software prepared, written and visual information (pictures, mini-videos) will be given to participants every day for 3 months on diabetes, self-management of diabetes and nutrition. Whether the participants read the messages or not will also be monitored through this software. At the end of 3 months, the participants in the intervention and control groups will be invited again, and their biochemical parameters and self-management status will be measured according to the diabetes self-management scale. Data will be collected through face-to-face interviews in the outpatient clinic, and weight will be measured with the bioelectrical impedance analyzer in the outpatient clinic, height will be measured with a height meter fixed to the wall, and waist circumference will be measured with a non-stretchable measuring tape.

Treatment:

Other: Mobile Application Supported Nutrition and Diabetes Education