A Feasibility Study of a Conversational Agent App for Empowering Foot Care Literacy Among People With Diabetes and Their Carers
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 40
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Usability of a health app among patients and carers at the end of the trial (1 month)
研究概览
简要总结
Diabetes education and self-management support can be delivered via mobile phones. This protocol aims to assess the feasibility and acceptability of Well Feet, a conversational agent, as a diabetic foot care companion. By utilizing feedback and responses to evaluative questions posted on the app's interface, the investigators intend to examine the app's technical, functional, and operational feasibility.
详细描述
Diabetes puts patients with diabetes at risk of foot complications. Besides well managed diabetes, providing diabetes foot care education and self-management support is key to reducing the risk of developing diabetic foot ulcers, a serious and costly complication of diabetes. Although, education and self-management support for people with diabetes can improve patients' quality of life, they are still commonly not provided or inadequate. Digital technologies have the potential to offer a new convenient, interactive, and engaging mode of self-management education and support.
This study aims to examine the feasibility of the Well Feet app for diabetes foot care education and self-management support in promoting optimal foot care behaviour. In recognizing that many people with diabetes, especially the elderly, require the support of informal carers, the app also targets their knowledge and support needs.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Only
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 21 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Usability of a health app among patients and carers at the end of the trial (1 month)
时间窗: end-of-trial (1 month)
A validated questionnaire, MHealth App Usability Questionnaire, will be used to determine the usefulness and applicability of an app with a conversational agent/chatbot among patients and carers. The questionnaire consists of 3 subscales, which are ease of use (5 items), interface and satisfaction (7 items), and usefulness (6 items). Participants rate each of the items using a 7-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). The usability of the app is determined by the total and average of all statements-the higher the overall average, the better the usability of the app. However, if the average score is lower than 4, it means that the usability of the app is not good
Qualitative perspective on a conversational agent/chatbot app usage experience among patients and carers at the end of the trial (1 month).
时间窗: end-of-trial (1 month)
A focus group discussion among the app user will be done to collect feedback on the user experience at the end of the trial. Qualitative data on app usability, app applicability, app relevance and user feedback will be retrieved from the focus group discussion.
次要结局
- Time spent on the app in the conversational agent/chatbot app among patients and carers at the end of the trial (1 month).(end-of-trial (1 month))
- Module rating in the conversational agent/chatbot app among patients and carers at the end of the trial (1 month).(end-of-trial (1 month))
- Changes in foot care knowledge among patients and carers at baseline and end-of-trial (1 month).(baseline and end-of-trial (1 month))
- Overall app rating for the conversational agent/chatbot app among patients and carers at the end of the trial (1 month).(end-of-trial (1 month))
- Number of module completed in the conversational agent/chatbot app among patients and carers at the end of the trial (1 month).(end-of-trial (1 month))
- Changes in foot care related self-management behaviour among patients at baseline and end-of-trial (1 month).(baseline and end-of-trial (1 month))
- Login frequency in the conversational agent/chatbot app among patients and carers at the end of the trial (1 month).(end-of-trial (1 month))
- Changes in carer's quality of life at the baseline and end-of-trial.(baseline and end-of-trial (1 month))
- Number of module accessed in the conversational agent/chatbot app among patients and carers at the end of the trial (1 month).(end-of-trial (1 month))
- Module quizzes scores in the conversational agent/chatbot app among patients and carers at the end of the trial (1 month).(end-of-trial (1 month))
- Usability of a conversational agent/chatbot among patients and carers at the end of the trial (1 month).(end-of-trial (1 month))
研究者
Ho Hau Yan Andy
Joint Associate Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Nanyang Technological University