PMID- 33840235
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220707
LR  - 20220908
IS  - 1932-2968 (Electronic)
IS  - 1932-2968 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 4
DP  - 2022 Jul
TI  - Design and Development of a Mobile-Based Self-Care Application for Patients with 
      Type 2 Diabetes.
PG  - 1008-1015
LID - 10.1177/19322968211007124 [doi]
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Mobile-based applications play a leading role in changes in 
      life-style, improve medication adherence, and provide a unique opportunity to aid 
      patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) elevate their healthcare level. 
      Therefore, we aim to design and develop a mobile-based self-care application for 
      patients with T2DM. METHODS: The present study was an applied and developmental 
      study to design and develop a mobile-based self-care application for people 
      living with T2DM conducted in 2020. The design and development of the T2DM 
      self-care application were done in 2 main phases of determining the key features 
      and capabilities, and design and development of the T2DM self-care mobile app. 
      RESULTS: We identified the main model and a set of capabilities and features for 
      the T2DM self-care application. By content analysis on 32 different applications 
      and a previous study by the author, 18 features were extracted for the T2DM 
      self-care mobile app. JAVA programming languages were used to design T2DM 
      applications. Moreover, because of the cost-effectiveness, the Android operating 
      system (AOS) was selected as a platform, and because of the widespread use of 
      smartphones; these phones were chosen as the format of T2DM self-care 
      application. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we design and develop a mobile-based 
      self-care application for patients with type 2 diabetes that shows potential in 
      solving the shortcomings of mobile apps for diabetes care. By utilizing the T2DM 
      self-care mobile app we are able to deploy a self-care application with a wide 
      range of functionality such as text messaging, blood glucose monitoring, insulin 
      dose suggestions, educational messaging, metabolic management, pedometer counts, 
      and reporting. Future studies are needed to develop self-care applications for a 
      different type of diabetes with different functions of diabetes care.
FAU - Mehraeen, Esmaeil
AU  - Mehraeen E
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4108-2973
AD  - Department of Health Information Technology, Khalkhal University of Medical 
      Sciences, Khalkhal, Iran.
FAU - Mehrtak, Mohammad
AU  - Mehrtak M
AD  - School of Medicine and Allied Medical Sciences, Ardabil University of Medical 
      Sciences, Ardabil, Iran.
FAU - Janfaza, Nazanin
AU  - Janfaza N
AD  - Internal Medicine Department, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, School of Medicine, 
      Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
FAU - Karimi, Amirali
AU  - Karimi A
AD  - School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
FAU - Heydari, Mohammad
AU  - Heydari M
AD  - Department of Health Information Technology, Khalkhal University of Medical 
      Sciences, Khalkhal, Iran.
FAU - Mirzapour, Pegah
AU  - Mirzapour P
AD  - Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS, Iranian Institute for Reduction of High 
      Risk Behaviors, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
FAU - Mehranfar, Adele
AU  - Mehranfar A
AD  - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Isfahan University of Medical 
      Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210410
PL  - United States
TA  - J Diabetes Sci Technol
JT  - Journal of diabetes science and technology
JID - 101306166
RN  - 0 (Blood Glucose)
SB  - IM
MH  - Blood Glucose
MH  - Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring
MH  - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/therapy
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Mobile Applications
MH  - Self Care
PMC - PMC9264443
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - application
OT  - diabetes
OT  - mobile
OT  - self-care
OT  - type 2 diabetes
COIS- Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential 
      conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or 
      publication of this article.
EDAT- 2021/04/13 06:00
MHDA- 2022/07/08 06:00
PMCR- 2022/04/10
CRDT- 2021/04/12 05:23
PHST- 2021/04/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/07/08 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/04/12 05:23 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/04/10 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1177_19322968211007124 [pii]
AID - 10.1177/19322968211007124 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2022 Jul;16(4):1008-1015. doi: 10.1177/19322968211007124. 
      Epub 2021 Apr 10.