Testing Usability and Feasibility of a Mobile Educator Tool for Pediatric Diabetes Self-Management: Mixed Methods Pilot Study

• DOI: 10.2196/16262
• Publication Date: 2020-05-01T14:15:47Z
• Authors: Marisa Otis; Jack Zhu; Suleiman N Mustaf...; Angelina V Bernier; Julio Ma Shum; Arlette A Soros D...; Monica L Wang
• Keywords: Diabetes management; Self-Management

Background Mobile interventions hold promise as an intervention modality to engage children in improving diabetes self-management education, attitudes, and behaviors. Objective This pilot study aimed explore the usability, acceptability, feasibility of delivering a mobile educational tool parent-child pairs clinical setting. Methods mixed methods comprised two concurrent phases with differing participants. Phase 1 used user testing interviews collect qualitative data on usability acceptability tool. 2 single-arm pre- poststudy design quantitatively evaluate preliminary efficacy intervention. Study participants (English-speaking families youth aged 5-14 years insulin-dependent diabetes) were recruited from urban hospital Massachusetts, United States. In phase 1, invited complete together participate 90-min assessing tool’s acceptability. Interview transcripts analyzed using directed content analysis approach. 2, Measures included parental child knowledge, behaviors related management (self-report surveys) hemoglobin A1c levels (medical record extractions); collected at baseline 1-month follow-up. Pre- postoutcomes compared paired t tests Fisher exact test. Results A total 11 (N=22) participated study, 10 (N=20) study. Participants viewed acceptable (high engagement satisfaction layout, activities, videos) identified areas improvement for (duration, directions, animation). Conclusions The findings this suggest that is informative, engaging, feasible way deliver education parents Data will inform future iterations improve test efficacy.