Padman Rema, Jaladi Sravani, Kim Sean, Kumar Saumitra, Orbeta Philip, Rudolph Kate, Tran Tony
The H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:333-7.
According to WHO, pediatric diabetes is a rising global public health problem, with increasing impact on developing nations. This study summarizes a multidimensional, scalable pilot evaluation of a diabetes self-management platform combining mobile technology with social networking to capture four key metrics of Type 1 diabetes self-management, associated social interactions, and gaming features providing targeted feedback to 8 pediatric users. Based on their 2-month interaction with the application, we analyze click-stream data from social interactions, key health metrics, text comments, and usability and satisfaction surveys to evaluate engagement with the platform and effectiveness in controlling blood glucose using a product-process-program framework. Our preliminary results indicate that this framework was successful in demonstrating the potential of the mobile health platform to effectively leverage the growing use of mobile applications and social media to present a unique benefit that engaged pediatric users and provided useful insights for self-health management.
根据世界卫生组织的数据，儿童糖尿病是一个日益严重的全球公共卫生问题，对发展中国家的影响越来越大。本研究总结了一项针对糖尿病自我管理平台的多维度、可扩展的试点评估，该平台将移动技术与社交网络相结合，以获取1型糖尿病自我管理的四个关键指标、相关的社交互动以及为8名儿科用户提供针对性反馈的游戏功能。基于他们与该应用程序的2个月互动，我们分析了来自社交互动、关键健康指标、文本评论以及可用性和满意度调查的点击流数据，以使用产品-过程-程序框架评估对该平台的参与度以及控制血糖的有效性。我们的初步结果表明，该框架成功地展示了移动健康平台有效利用移动应用程序和社交媒体日益增长的使用的潜力，呈现出一种独特的优势，吸引了儿科用户，并为自我健康管理提供了有用的见解。
