Diabetic E-patient Care System
Abstract
Diabetes as one of the Chronic Illness that requires extra effort in its monitoring and management
to avoid the glycemic fluctuations through a patient centric medication, that requires close
monitoring of the patient physical exercise, insulin intakes and eating habits. The treatments
offered for type one diabetic aims to keep patients' blood glucose levels as normal as possible and
to prevent health problems developing later in their life. This requires the patients to be followed
by a doctor for life but most of them are culprits of inadequate patient follow up as reported by
Beran report of implementing national diabetes programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Researchers and
developers have created Diabetes applications that already are flooded in the free application stores
but basically most of them do offer local data logging with exclusive additional features at high
cost. Most of these applications are meant for users targeted in the developed world context.
Through the study, a logging application on an Android Smartphone was designed and developed
for Children with Type One diabetes for a developing world context to help them in diabetes selfmanagement.
Questionnaire survey was done with nine respondents that was used to represent the
population on pilot. A modified version of the Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities was used
to investigate the changes related to the diabetes self-management and the user satisfaction. The
survey results for the user satisfaction showed that 81.7% of subjects had positive changes on their
clinical course of diabetes self-management after using the application 87.2% of the users were
satisfied with the User Interface, Application Structure and supported functionalities of the
application. Furthermore, 96.7% of the users stated that the application was efficient in use on
logging the data. This study showed that improvement in diabetes self-management activities is
greater when user satisfaction is high. In addition, the study showed a positive effect on diabetes
self-management and high level of user satisfaction both which plays a big role for improvement
on the patients Quality of Life.
Publisher
University Of Nairobi
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