Share Your Experience With Diabetes And Continuous Glucose Monitors (Device On Arm/Belly That Measures Blood Sugar)
Posted Date: Apr 18, 2024
- Investigator: Michelle Knopp
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- Type of Study: Device
Purpose: Diabetes is a health issue where our bodies have trouble with sugar. We eat food, and it turns into sugar in our blood. Insulin, a special hormone, helps our cells use this sugar for energy. There are two types of diabetes, with Type 2 being more common. It happens when the body doesn't make enough insulin or when insulin doesn't work well. This can be caused by things like being overweight, not exercising enough, eating unhealthy foods, or having family members with diabetes. Many people in the USA have diabetes - more than 1 in 10. It can cause problems with the heart, kidneys, and eyesight. But there are ways to manage it, like taking medicine and using special tools like a continuous glucose monitor, or CGM. This sensor, about the size of a coin, sticks to your belly or arm and checks your blood sugar levels for 10-14 days. It sends the information to a device, like a phone, that shows if your blood sugar is too high or too low. You can share this with your doctor, who can suggest changes to your medicine or other ways to help. This project wants to see who is using these devices and how they help with diabetes. We also want to talk to people using these devices to learn what could make them even better and how much they like using them. We hope this will start more studies to make life better for people with diabetes. Recruitment: Doctors will help find people for the study, and we'll also put up flyers in our clinics. People who have Type 2 diabetes, are older than 17 years old, have been prescribed CGM, are not pregnant, and can participate in a 1-hour, in-person English session can join. We'll use an identifier number, not names, to keep the data private. Procedures: Participants will join a 1-hour in-person English session for an interview or group session (focus group). They'll be asked questions about living with diabetes and using the CGM. Interviews will follow a list of questions created by the team and will be recorded and transcribed. Experimental Device: This study won't provide the CGM device to anyone. We're just learning more about it. Data Analysis: Recordings will be analyzed to understand patients' experiences with diabetes and the technology. Data from medical records will be studied to compare people with and without CGM. All patient names and identifying information will be removed for privacy.
Criteria:
Subjects Must Be At Least 18 Years Old, Have Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Not Be Pregnant, Have Been Prescribed A Continuous Glucose Monitor (Freestyle Libre, Libre 2, Libre 3, Dexcom G6/G7), And Be Able To Participate In A 1 Hour In Person English Session.
Keywords:
Diabetes, Continuous Glucose Monitor, Cgm
For More Information:
Michelle Knopp
513-558-9703
knoppmi@ucmail.uc.edu