Twitter and Diabetes

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes; Cardiovascular Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Twitter Diabetes Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02806700

R01HL122457-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

R01: HL122457-0IA1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Twitter use is surprisingly well represented across broad demographic population segments and health-related messages. The promise of using Twitter is that its use is growing rapidly, it allows the investigators to view communications that were impossible to intercept before, and it potentially provides information faster and less expensively than collection from other media channels. Prior work also supports that social media interventions can improve health behavior change (e.g. weight loss, physical activity) and outcomes.The overarching goals of this proposal are to understand the uses and limitations of this communication channel to improve patients' ability to manage their CV health condition.

Full description

Use Twitter to deliver high impact CV health related content to improve patient activation and disease management for diabetes.

Enrollment: 628 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diabetes
• uses social media

Exclusion criteria

• <21 years of age
• pregnant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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628 participants in 2 patient groups

Twitter Diabetes Control

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will be identified as having diabetes from Twitter. This group will be contacted and asked to complete brief surveys

Twitter Diabetes Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

This group will be identified as having diabetes from Twitter. This group will be contacted and asked to complete brief surveys. This group will be asked to use twitter for heart health ( e.g. tweeting, following, receiving tweets)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Twitter Diabetes Intervention