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CompletedNCT05564728

Diabetes Footcare Companion App for Patients and Carers

A Feasibility Study of a Conversational Agent App for Empowering Foot Care Literacy Among People With Diabetes and Their Carers

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
40 (actual)
Sponsor
Nanyang Technological University · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
21 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Diabetes education and self-management support can be delivered via mobile phones. This protocol aims to assess the feasibility and acceptability of Well Feet, a conversational agent, as a diabetic foot care companion. By utilizing feedback and responses to evaluative questions posted on the app's interface, the investigators intend to examine the app's technical, functional, and operational feasibility.

Detailed description

Diabetes puts patients with diabetes at risk of foot complications. Besides well managed diabetes, providing diabetes foot care education and self-management support is key to reducing the risk of developing diabetic foot ulcers, a serious and costly complication of diabetes. Although, education and self-management support for people with diabetes can improve patients' quality of life, they are still commonly not provided or inadequate. Digital technologies have the potential to offer a new convenient, interactive, and engaging mode of self-management education and support. This study aims to examine the feasibility of the Well Feet app for diabetes foot care education and self-management support in promoting optimal foot care behaviour. In recognizing that many people with diabetes, especially the elderly, require the support of informal carers, the app also targets their knowledge and support needs.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
OTHERConversational Agent/Chatbot AppWell Feet is developed based on adaptive learning frameworks to deliver diabetes foot care education through a conversational agent. The learning path for each participant will be customised based on their responses to pre-module quizzes.

Timeline

Start date
2023-06-23
Primary completion
2023-09-30
Completion
2023-09-30
First posted
2022-10-03
Last updated
2024-01-19

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Singapore

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT05564728. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.