Twitter and Diabetes

• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT02806700
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 225
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Actual Duration (Months): 26
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 8.7

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Twitter use is surprisingly well represented across broad demographic population segments and health-related messages. The promise of using Twitter is that its use is growing rapidly, it allows the investigators to view communications that were impossible to intercept before, and it potentially provides information faster and less expensively than collection from other media channels. Prior work also supports that social media interventions can improve health behavior change (e.g. weight loss, physical activity) and outcomes.The overarching goals of this proposal are to understand the uses and limitations of this communication channel to improve patients' ability to manage their CV health condition.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Diabetes; Cardiovascular Disease	Behavioral: Twitter Diabetes Intervention	N/A

Detailed Description

Use Twitter to deliver high impact CV health related content to improve patient activation and disease management for diabetes.

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 225 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Official Title: Twitter and Diabetes
• Actual Study Start Date: Jun 1, 2016
• Actual Primary Completion Date: May 1, 2018
• Actual Study Completion Date: Aug 1, 2018

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
No Intervention: Twitter Diabetes Control This group will be identified as having diabetes from Twitter. This group will be contacted and asked to complete brief surveys
Experimental: Twitter Diabetes Intervention This group will be identified as having diabetes from Twitter. This group will be contacted and asked to complete brief surveys. This group will be asked to use twitter for heart health ( e.g. tweeting, following, receiving tweets)	Behavioral: Twitter Diabetes Intervention; This group will be asked to use twitter for heart health ( e.g. tweeting, following, receiving tweets)

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Patient Activation [6 months]

   PAM scale with an anticipated 2-3 point difference

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. HbA1c [6-12 months]

   self reported HbA1c

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 21 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

• diabetes

• uses social media

Exclusion Criteria:

• <21 years of age

• pregnant

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	United States	19104

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of Pennsylvania

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

• Study Protocol - Apr 10, 2018
• Statistical Analysis Plan - Apr 10, 2018

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: University of Pennsylvania
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02806700
• Other Study ID Numbers: R01: HL122457-0IA1
• First Posted: Jun 21, 2016
• Last Update Posted: Aug 1, 2018
• Last Verified: Apr 1, 2018

• Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: No
• Plan to Share IPD: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
• Keywords provided by University of Pennsylvania: Diabetes; Social Media
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Cardiovascular Diseases; Diabetes Mellitus

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Aug 1, 2018