SBIR Phase I: Digital Self-Management Intervention for Empowering Youth with Type 1 Diabetes

SBIR 第一阶段：数字化自我管理干预，为患有 1 型糖尿病的青少年提供帮助

• 批准号: 1747372
• 负责人: Matthew Lucas
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Mahalo Health Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1747372&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Digital; Self; Management

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to transform the life experiences of youth patients in the Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) community by providing an affordable, comprehensive mobile platform for monitoring health behaviors, tracking biometrics, fostering self-empathy/empowerment, and developing healthy diabetes self-management practices (DSM) through a gamified app. Adherence to DSM behaviors is an exacting issue with conventional T1D treatment and prevention regimens, though the use of features found in gaming technologies has been shown to be motivating in apps for chronic illnesses. Data-tracking applications meant for public health are believed to yield hidden trends on diet, fitness, mood, and compliance in both individuals and populations, identifying behavioral patterns that may be useful for positive behavior change. With a far-reaching and accessible intervention leveraging the motivational power of games, empathy, and social interaction, health professionals can use this intervention to encourage long-term engagement with data-tracking, which in turn creates rich data sets for tapping into the unseen trends of T1D experiences, contributing to the growing body of T1D knowledge, enriching T1D youth's quality of life, and streamline patient-provider communications in a cost-effective way that benefits the health care system as a whole.The proposed project aims to provide a better understanding of the affordances of digital technologies in DSM, with emphases on the role of technology as a facilitator of diabetes education, DSM, patient-provider communications, emotional wellness, social and cognitive development, and positive behavior change. T1D diagnoses represent more than 175,000 youth in the United States, and despite significant headway in other areas of mobile health, many families struggle to access T1D tools that dramatically improve the quality of life and health outcomes of their children. To meet this demand, the objectives of this research begin with engineering a full-featured youth-facing prototype¯starring an empathetic virtual pet¯capable of collecting multiple streams of user data and teaching via instructional modules. Data collected during usability studies with stakeholders in the diabetes community will provide insight into effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction of users, while a feasibility study also employing interviews, surveys, and think aloud protocols will offer insight into the practical use of the app in everyday life over a weeklong period. After both of these studies have been conducted, transcripts of recorded sessions and log file data will be analyzed, with the goal of improving the feasibility of extended product usage and success.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是通过提供一个负担得起的、全面的移动的平台来监测健康行为、跟踪生物特征、培养自我同情/赋权，并通过游戏化应用程序开发健康的糖尿病自我管理实践（DSM）。遵守DSM行为是传统T1 D治疗和预防方案的一个严格问题，尽管在游戏技术中发现的功能的使用已经被证明是在慢性疾病的应用程序中的激励。用于公共卫生的数据跟踪应用程序被认为可以在个人和人群中产生关于饮食，健身，情绪和依从性的隐藏趋势，识别可能有助于积极行为改变的行为模式。通过利用游戏、同理心和社交互动的激励力量进行影响深远且易于获得的干预，卫生专业人员可以利用这种干预来鼓励长期参与数据跟踪，从而创建丰富的数据集，用于挖掘T1 D体验的不可见趋势，为T1 D知识的不断增长做出贡献，丰富T1 D青少年的生活质量，该项目旨在更好地了解数字技术在DSM中的作用，重点是技术作为糖尿病教育，DSM，患者-提供者沟通，情感健康，社会和认知发展，以及积极的行为改变。T1 D诊断代表了美国超过175，000名青少年，尽管在其他移动的健康领域取得了重大进展，但许多家庭仍难以获得T1 D工具，这些工具可显着改善其子女的生活质量和健康状况。为了满足这一需求，本研究的目标是从设计一个功能齐全的面向年轻人的原型开始，它由一个富有同情心的虚拟宠物主演，能够收集多个用户数据流，并通过教学模块进行教学。在糖尿病社区利益相关者的可用性研究期间收集的数据将提供对有效性，效率和用户满意度的深入了解，而可行性研究也采用访谈，调查和大声思考协议将提供对应用程序在日常生活中的实际使用的深入了解。在进行这两项研究后，将分析记录会话的记录和日志文件数据，目的是提高产品使用扩展和成功的可行性。