Impact of the Prevent the Progress of Diabetes app and brief dietitian call on patient readiness for lifestyle change
Project impact
A new information app and service model was developed to empower and enable individuals with diabetes and those at risk if diabetes to facilitate lifestyle change and improved weight management.
This project supports the DHI Rural Centre of Excellence’s Living Lab for Supported Self-Management, focusing on digital innovations to promote community assets, cross-sector care, and personal data use for weight management and reducing risks of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
The new Prevent the progress of diabetes web and mobile app is now available for wider use across Primary Care and hosted on the National Right Decision Service Platform.
Developing a digitally enabled universal service model to reduce type 2 diabetes-related risk
This project is a collaborative endeavours between DHI as part of the Rural Centre of Excellence, NHS Grampian Weight Management Teams and Right Decisions Service, which currently offers a wide range of decision support tools for Health and Care Professionals and increasingly enables access patient facing decision support tools
This project was conducted in three stages
1) Co-design and development of the app in collaboration with patients and healthcare professionals.
2) Piloting and evaluation of the app with support from healthcare professionals.
3) Recommendations for a service model for delivery at scale and maximising impact, accompanied by further evaluation.
Summary
Partners
· Successful development and pilot of a co design information app specifically to support Diabetes Progress and Prevention
· Evaluation results concluded App easy to Access and 94% of those who used the app reported improved condition knowledge and suggests that use of the app alone combined with personal motivation was sufficient for a third of participants to reach the stage of making or planning behaviour change.
· Service delivery models offered insights into how NHS service can offer different “ Service Bundles” to better support the needs of individuals who have different levels of self-efficiency with respect to supported self-management
Project was completed over 12 month period and concluded in November 2024. The evaluation report has now been published
Impact & value
Progress to date
Staff related to the project
· Further discussions are underway to make the Make the App available for use more widely across NHS Grampian..
· Develop a roadmap for collaborative development with the DHI Weight Management Living Lab – completed by 2025.
· Further testing and development of the Service Model - how to maximise the use of and to maximise the benefits of the app in terms of patient safety, patient experience and service efficiency
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