NCT03591081

Induce (Intellin Diabetic Foot) Feasibility Study

A Feasibility Study to Explore the Implementation and Acceptance of INTELLIN, a Novel mHealth Application on the Management of People With Diabetes Who Have Recently Healed Foot Ulceration.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 19 (actual)
• Sponsor: Natalie Garratt · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a novel feasibility study to test the participant acceptance and usability of a specifically designed smart phone app. It will also explore the effects of smart phone technology in improving self-referrals into the diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) service. Furthermore, it will be explored if this increase in self-referrals will influence the outcome of people with diabetes who have recently had a healed foot ulceration.

Detailed description

The rationale behind this study is if the investigators can introduce a new technology (a smart phone app) which is acceptable to patients, engages them and prompts people to take preventative health behaviours then the investigators may be able to influence the low rates of appropriate self-referral. There is evidence that links poor glycaemic control and hypertension to DFUs, so engagement in these areas of wider diabetes management needs to be reviewed, the latest National Diabetes Audit (NDA) shows only 20% of people with Type 1 and 42% of people with Type 2 diabetes achieve the 3 NICE standards for HbA1c, BP and cholesterol. In addition, healthcare providers are being asked to investigate new systems that may increase patient engagement with and the uptake of the NICE 8 annual care processes. The latest NDA shows only 40% of patients with type 1 and 60% of patients with type 2 diabetes currently have all 8 .

Conditions

• Healed Ulcer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Intellin smart phone application	This feasibility study will explore if creating an electronic platform Intellin smart phone application can promote and support timely self-referral for individuals with a recently healed DFU. It will explore the software applications acceptance and ease of use for patients.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-22
• Primary completion: 2020-03-20
• Completion: 2020-03-20
• First posted: 2018-07-18
• Last updated: 2020-08-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom