NCT04132089

Mobile Health Application for Diabetes

Incorporating Behavioral Trigger Measures Into a Mobile Health (mHealth) App Design for Chronic Disease Management: Pilot Study in Diabetes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of South Alabama · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	capABILITY	All participants utilized the designed capABILITy application. The application consisted of education material and persuasive messaging. There were two types of messaging components named facilitators and sparks. This created three groups consisting of: control, facilitators and sparks. Participants spent 1 month in each group (total duration of the study was three months).

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-01
• Completion: 2017-04-01
• First posted: 2019-10-18
• Last updated: 2019-10-18