NCT02806700

Twitter and Diabetes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 628 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

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

Conditions

• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Twitter Diabetes Intervention	This group will be asked to use twitter for heart health ( e.g. tweeting, following, receiving tweets)

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2018-05-01
• Completion: 2018-08-01
• First posted: 2016-06-21
• Last updated: 2024-10-21
• Results posted: 2024-10-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States