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QUESTION
Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment
As a group, identify a research or evidence-based article published within the last 5 years that focuses comprehensively on a specific intervention or new treatment tool for the management of diabetes in adults or children. The article must be relevant to nursing practice.
Create a 10-15 slide PowerPoint presentation on the study's findings and how they can be used by nurses as an intervention. Include speaker notes for each slide and additional slides for the title page and references.
Include the following:
#1 Describe the intervention or treatment tool and the specific patient population used in the study.
#2 Summarize the main idea of the research findings for a specific patient population. The research presented must include clinical findings that are current, thorough, and relevant to diabetes and nursing practice.
#3 Provide a descriptive and reflective discussion of how the new tool or intervention can be integrated into nursing practice. Provide evidence to support your discussion.
#4 Explain why psychological, cultural, and spiritual aspects are important to consider for a patient who has been diagnosed with diabetes. Describe how support can be offered in these respective areas as part of a plan of care for the patient. Provide examples.
You are required to cite to a minimum of two sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
| Subject | Nursing | Pages | 6 | Style | APA |
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Answer
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Intervention and specific patient population
Introduction
- Purpose
- Analyze the research article, “Diabetes Management: Mobile Phone Applications Used Within Healthcare Systems for Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management” with particular emphasis on intervention/treatment tool and the patient population presented in the study.
- The primary purpose of this presentation is to examine the intervention/treatment tool and the specific population presented in the article, “Diabetes Management: Mobile Phone Applications Used Within Healthcare Systems for Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management”. The Article was published in 2018 by Community Preventive Services Task Force
Aim of the study
- Encourage the use of mobile phone applications in the self-management of type 2 diabetes.
- 95%: Mobile phone ownership in the Unites States, as of 2016
- Close to 70% of mobile health apps developed in 2017 targeted mobile phone users living with diabetes.
This study, by Community Preventive Services Task Force, sought to encourage the adoption of mobile phone applications to improve self-management of type 2 diabetes in healthcare settings. The essence is to improve health outcomes of diabetics by incorporating modern technologies in healthcare through leveraging the rapidly growing ownership as well as the constantly evolving power and capability of mobile phones and smartphones. As of 2016, approximately 95% of people in the United own a mobile phone (cell phone and smartphone). To put the need for adopting mobile phone apps in diabetes management into perspective, the study further maintain that more than 70% health apps developed in 2017 were specific to diabetes (Community Preventive Services Task Force, 2018)
Intervention presented
- Use of mobile phone health applications to improve diabetes self-management among patients living with type 2 diabetes.
- Rationale/effectiveness
- 58%: Blood glucose reductions by apps that offered feedback from healthcare practitioners
- 44%: Blood glucose reductions by apps that only gave automated feedback from healthcare practitioners.
- Blood glucose reductions were found to be greater among patients aged 55 years and younger.
The intervention presented in the study is the use of mobile phone health applications to improve self-management of type 2 diabetes among patients. Just like other health apps, mobile apps specific to diabetes will helps patients to manage the disease by providing self-management tips, ensuring that self-management tasks are constantly monitored and tracked and offering appropriate feedback from healthcare professionals. The working principle behind the intervention is simple. Patients enter relevant data and information into the apps directly of modern medical devises that send the data to their healthcare providers. Healthcare professionals or automated systems then assess the data and provide appropriate feedback to the patient. In this manner, the intervention (apps) enhances communication between diabetics and healthcare providers, thereby diabetes management and care. Healthcare facilities that implemented mobile phone apps in diabetes management reduced patients’ blood glucose levels by 0.4% compared to those that used traditional care.
Specific population used
- Men and women diabetic patients with a mean age of 57.7 years who were exposed to diabetes self-management mobile phone apps in different healthcare facilities in the U.S., United Kingdom, Korea, Finland, Japan and Norway.
- Diagnosed of type 2 diabetes for a mean period of 8 years.
The population used in the study comprise of men and women diabetic patients with a mean age of 57.7 years who were exposed to diabetes self-management mobile phone apps in different healthcare facilities in the U.S., United Kingdom, Korea, Finland, Japan and Norway. The participants had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes for a mean duration of 8 years, and 43.4% were female (Community Preventive Services Task Force, 2018)
- Purpose
References
- Community Preventive Services Task Force. (2018). Diabetes Management: Mobile Phone Applications Used Within Healthcare Systems for Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management.