Can digital health apps provide patients with support to promote structured diabetes education and ongoing self-management? A real-world evaluation of myDiabetes usage.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Structured diabetes education has evidenced benefits yet reported uptake rates for those referred to traditional in-person programmes within 12 months of diagnosis were suboptimal. Digital health interventions provide a potential solution to improve diabetes education delivery at population scale, overcoming barriers identified with traditional approaches. myDiabetes is a cloud-based interactive digital health self-management app. This evaluation analysed usage data for people with type 2 diabetes focusing on digital structured diabetes education.

Methods

Descriptive quantitative analyses were conducted on existing anonymised user data over 12 months (November 2019-2020) to evaluate whether digital health can provide additional support to deliver diabetes education

SUBMITTER: Blythin AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10009031 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature