A Novel Mobile Application for Diabetic Risk Assessment and Public Education

An innovative way to prevent diabetes by learning personal diabetic risk and modifying lifestyles

Early detection of pre-diabetes is the crucial part of diabetic prevention. Since 2014, the project team has developed a mobile application to allow general public to self-assess their diabetic risk. By completing a short survey, high-risk individuals can be identified. The project team is inviting these individuals to join our health assessments and phone counseling. These strategies offer advice on how to modify lifestyles so as to prevent the progression to diabetes.

Health assessment – blood test

Venue of the Health Assessment–Gerontological Nursing Laboratory

Health assessment–fitness test

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Special Features and Advantages

Users can know their risk level in 7 minutes. DRS reading has a good sensitivity of 0.70 and an acceptable specificity of 0.57.
Health assessments consist of body fat analysis, HbA1c and fitness tests
Individualized guidance in diet and exercise is provided by phone counselling

Applications

Increase public awareness of pre-diabetes, identify the at-risk population and encourage these individuals to change their lifestyles for preventing diabetes
After attending the 3-month phone counselling, the at-risk individuals (n=69) had significant improvement in their physical fitness (Table 2)

Principal Investigator

Dr Angela Yee Man LEUNG

School of Nursing

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