In this research we propose to develop and evaluate a new breed of decision-support tools that will facilitate problem-solving in diabetes using a combination of an interactive website and SMS messaging server. Past research has provided convincing evidence that well-developed problem-solving abilities are essential to successful diabetes management, result in better diabetes self-care behaviors, and help individuals with diabetes improve their health. Health Information Technology (HIT) can assist individuals in developing the necessary problem-solving abilities. At present, however, many HIT interventions target improved patient- clinician communication and improved logging and monitoring, rather than focusing more specifically on fostering problem-solving skills. The long term goal of this research is to develop theoretically-grounded, practice-based HIT interventions for facilitating effecting diabetes self-management through problem-solving, experimentation, and discovery. In our prior work we identified a set of strategies used by diabetes educators to foster diabetes problem-solving. In this project we will use these strategies to develop a decision-support tool-Mobile Diabetes Detective (MoDD)-that will help individuals with diabetes to identify specific, personally significant challenges in diabetes management (such as undesirably high fasting Blood Glucose (BG) values), generate alternative strategies for addressing these challenges (such as introducing a bedtime snack), evaluate these strategies through simple experiments (measuring BG before and after an activity of interest), and monitor their outcomes (through interactive visualization or simple textual summary). A wizard-like interface on an interactive website will help individuals develop personal learning plans. SMS messages to individuals'mobile phones will remind them of the planned experiments and allow reporting the results of the experiments. MoDD will be built using an open source platform for chronic disease self- management (Salud!) developed by the research team;we plan to release the resulting tool to the research community. We will evaluate the effectiveness of MoDD in a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) and assess its potential public health impact using RE-AIM framework.

Public Health Relevance

The proposed HIT solution will be designed to help individuals with diabetes improve their problem-solving abilities, develop better self-care behaviors and improve their health. As such, this project has a high potential public health impact.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01DK090372-02
Application #
8328624
Study Section
Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics Study Section (BCHI)
Program Officer
Hunter, Christine
Project Start
2011-09-06
Project End
2016-08-31
Budget Start
2012-09-01
Budget End
2013-08-31
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2012
Total Cost
$653,288
Indirect Cost
$107,113
Name
Columbia University (N.Y.)
Department
Internal Medicine/Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
621889815
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10032
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