NCT04149054

Mobile Health App to Reduce Diabetes in Latina Women

Mobile Health App to Reduce Diabetes in Latina Women With Prior Gestational Diabetes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: Environment and Health Group, Inc. · Industry
• Sex: Female
• Age: 19 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The proposed project sought to develop a culturally- and individually-tailored, plain-language Spanish/English mobile phone intervention for Latinas with prior gestational diabetes (GDM). The intervention is based on earlier in-person to online modification of the CDC-funded Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), for women with prior GDM led by co-investigator Dr. Ellen Seely of Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Detailed description

The specific aims of the study were as follows: Primary Aim 1: Develop a culturally-tailored mobile phone intervention for Latinas with prior GDM based on Brigham \& Women's Hospital online DPP. Primary Aim 2: Conduct a pilot trial of the intervention. Primary Aim 3:Evaluate implementation feasibility.

Conditions

• Gestational Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mobile health app called "Hola Bebe"	For the pilot, all participants received a mobile app that contained 6 interactive audio/written modules in Spanish and English on the following topics: healthy eating; physical activity; portion control; eating healthy while eating out; eating out in Chinese, Italian, Mexican restaurants; and eating out in fast food restaurants. As noted above, the mobile app was customizable to include personalized activity reminders/notifications, and tailored action plans, along with videos for easy at-home exercises and user-friendly, easy-to-follow recipes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-07-22
• Primary completion: 2017-04-30
• Completion: 2017-04-30
• First posted: 2019-11-04
• Last updated: 2019-11-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States