Diabetes self-management requires active participation and strong collaboration between patients, families, and healthcare professionals.
Integrating self-management becomes more accessible with the DiaRIn App, which can improve self-management and glycemic control in patients with T2DM.
“Users are satisfied, and the DiaRIn Android application is recommended for general use by patients with T2DM,” stated Dewi Murdiyanti Prihatin Putri during her doctoral defense at the UGM Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing (FK-KMK UGM), on Thursday (21/3).
On that occasion, Dr. Putri defended her dissertation, Implementation of Integrated Diabetes Self-Management Based on the Android Application (DiaRIn App) in Improving Self-Management and Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients.
Based on her research, the DiaRIn Android application was developed based on user needs and then tested using the Heuristic Evaluation method.
Most of the issues that arose were minor usability problems, so overall, the Android application can be easily used. The Think Aloud method also revealed that users are satisfied with using the DiaRIn application, finding it easy, effective, and efficient.
“There are many benefits that patients with T2DM experience in guiding self-management using the DiaRIn application, so self-awareness and commitment are needed in its implementation,” she added.
Families can continue to monitor and remind patients of their self-management activities through the DiaRIn application so that patients can carry out their self-management regularly and orderly.
Healthcare professionals responsible for the Prolanis program can introduce the DiaRIn application to patients and families and use it in healthcare services to monitor self-management implementation in patients with T2DM.
They can also provide education and a means for health consultations, making it easier to monitor the health conditions of patients with T2DM.
Author: Satria
Photo: FK-KMK UGM