Twitter and Diabetes

NCT ID: NCT02806700

Last Updated: 2024-10-21

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 628 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-06-30
• Study Completion Date: 2018-08-31

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.

Detailed Description

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

Conditions

Diabetes; Cardiovascular Disease

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Twitter Diabetes Control

This group will be identified as having diabetes from Twitter. This group will be contacted and asked to complete brief surveys

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

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)

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Twitter Diabetes Intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

This group will be asked to use twitter for heart health ( e.g. tweeting, following, receiving tweets)

Interventions

Twitter Diabetes Intervention

This group will be asked to use twitter for heart health ( e.g. tweeting, following, receiving tweets)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• diabetes
• uses social media

Exclusion Criteria

• <21 years of age
• pregnant

• Minimum Eligible Age: 21 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Pennsylvania

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Countries

United States

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol

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Document Type: Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

R01HL122457-01A1

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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R01: HL122457-0IA1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id