Personalized Smartphone-assisted Coaching System to Improve Glucose Homeostasis in Adults With Prediabetes
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Conditions studied: Prediabetes, Hyperglycemia, Postprandial Hyperglycemia, Impaired Glucose Tolerance, Impaired Fasting Glucose
In brief
Sweetch is a personalized mobile-health platform coaching system (mobile phone app) designed to promote adherence to physical activity guidelines for people with prediabetes.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02896010
- Run by
- Johns Hopkins University
- People needed
- 55
- Starts
- 2016-10-10
- Expected to finish
- 2017-11-17
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-03-27
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adults aged 18 -75 years with prediabetes (fasting BG 100-125 mg/dl, A1C 5.7% - 6.4%, or 2 hour BG of 140-199 mg/dl following 75-gram oral glucose tolerance test)
- Body mass index 24 - 40 kg/m2
- English speaker
- Smartphone user (Android or Apple 5s and above)
You may not qualify if…
- Currently doing more than 150 minutes/week of moderate/vigorous physical activity
- Presence of medical conditions that prevent adoption of moderate physical activity
- Use of any glucose-lowering or weight loss medications within the previous 3 months
- Current pregnancy (self-reported) or planning pregnancy during study period (self-reported)
- Presence of any condition that can result in spurious A1C readings (e.g. anemia [hemoglobin level below lower limit of normal] secondary to iron, vitamin B12, or folate deficiencies; hemoglobinopathies)
- Use of systemic glucocorticoids
- Use of antipsychotic medications (stable doses for at least three months of anti-depressants or anti-anxiety drugs will be allowed)
- Severe mental illness or learning disability
- Current participation in another clinical trial
- Liver enzymes >3 x upper limit of normal
- Poor literacy (REALM-R score of 6 or less)
Where it is running
- Johns Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Reading Health System — Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
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