Survey for development of a mobile application for helping people suffering from Diabetes

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Completed but found some not applicable e.g. Insurance and cost of docs as on NHS, plus you can't put more than one answer in unless you use the 'other'option.
The survey also doesn't ask anything about what we would use an app for, or would want to use one for, so not sure how it helps in the development of one.
 
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Completed but found some not applicable e.g. Insurance and cost of docs as on NHS, plus you can't put more than one answer in unless you use the 'other'option.
The survey also doesn't ask anything about what we would use an app for, or would want to use one for, so not sure how it helps in the development of one.
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Hey hi,

Thanks for the response.I tried to modify my Questionnaire based of the previous comments.Thanks for the feedback

Sneha Saha
 
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I'm afraid this questionnaire is not designed for a lot of diabetics to actually complete - those of us on pumps; those of us who are on ANY hypoglycaemic agents (insulin or several Type 2 medications) or those of us who drive, therefore are required to regularly blood test with a glucometer - by UK Law for the driving; and quite probably other sections of the Diabetes community. Plus I'm afraid you have the terminology a bit wrong - the bulk of us do not SUFFER. The whole intention of dealing with diabetes - of any type - is to get us to the point as quickly as possible after diagnosis where we DON'T suffer and just lead as normal as possible lives without any ill effects - and stay that way as long as humanly possible !

I am also not sure what - if anything at all - the questionnaire is supposed to be telling your group, about us ?
 
trophywench said:
Sneha

I'm afraid this questionnaire is not designed for a lot of diabetics to actually complete - those of us on pumps; those of us who are on ANY hypoglycaemic agents (insulin or several Type 2 medications) or those of us who drive, therefore are required to regularly blood test with a glucometer - by UK Law for the driving; and quite probably other sections of the Diabetes community. Plus I'm afraid you have the terminology a bit wrong - the bulk of us do not SUFFER. The whole intention of dealing with diabetes - of any type - is to get us to the point as quickly as possible after diagnosis where we DON'T suffer and just lead as normal as possible lives without any ill effects - and stay that way as long as humanly possible !

I am also not sure what - if anything at all - the questionnaire is supposed to be telling your group, about us ?
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Hello Ma'am,

Thank you Ma'am for the valuable feedback.Yes ,we are in early stage for our idea and implementation on this.Actually we planned to make a mobile application which will take input of real time data of the food intake and shows you the prediction of blood sugar level fluctuation after the food intake.
So for this we need to know for whom this product will be useful and if it is useful how they can be benefitted with this.

May be I designed the questionnaire in a wrong way.But i just wanted to do a market research.So could you kindly share if you feel this is useful or not?Any feedback is highly needed.

Thanking you in advance,
Sneha
 
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In northern English dialect, "Mam" = mum (informal version of mother). If you want to be polite to a woman such as Trophywench, best to type "Ma'am", short for Madame. It's also how lower ranks address female army officers. Nit being able to continue in armed forces service is one of the disadvantages that my diagnosis with type 1 diabetes brought, but I would never say that I suffer with / from diabetes. Diabetics is the word for people with diabetes, not the name of the condition itself.
 
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Copepod said:
In northern English dialect, "Mam" = mum (informal version of mother). If you want to be polite to a woman such as Trophywench, best to type "Ma'am", short for Madame. It's also how lower ranks address female army officers. Nit being able to continue in armed forces service is one of the disadvantages that my diagnosis with type 1 diabetes brought, but I would never say that I suffer with diabetes.
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With Mam ,I want to meant Madam only.Corrected my post.I understand not every person in this group are suffering from diabetes ,but also I understand every person are knowledgable about that.So any general feedback to whom our product can be beneficial and if any suggestion to modify it will be highly appreciable.

Thanks,
Sneha
 
sneha saha said:
prediction of blood sugar level fluctuation after the food intake.
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That would be interesting, though we pretty much all react to foods differently (e.g. some people tolerate oatmeal, some can't... Therefore their spikes would be different) also our reactions vary over time

My 2 cents worth is that the application should be self-learning by allowing the user to input foods & 2 hour BG levels. Then adjust any predictions accordingly
 
Completed as best I could, most of the questions don't relate to a socialised health care system and are aimed at Type 1's I felt. As a result I doubt whether my responses will assist this project.
 
Amigo said:
Completed as best I could, most of the questions don't relate to a socialised health care system and are aimed at Type 1's I felt. As a result I doubt whether my responses will assist this project.
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Thank you,
The main idea is to build a mobile application for real time analysis and prediction of blood sugar level with input of the type of food you are having.But I am not sure whether this instant prediction will be beneficial for both type of diabetes or only for type 1?Who are the people who might be needing instant prediction ,can you give a feedback on that?

Thanks,
Sneha
 
Martin Canty said:
That would be interesting, though we pretty much all react to foods differently (e.g. some people tolerate oatmeal, some can't... Therefore their spikes would be different) also our reactions vary over time

My 2 cents worth is that the application should be self-learning by allowing the user to input foods & 2 hour BG levels. Then adjust any predictions accordingly
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Ok Sir,Thank you.
Nice comment.I use to know everybody will be intolerant to same type of carbohydrate food.But now I will keep this in mind.
Thank you,
sneha
 
sneha saha said:
Thank you,
The main idea is to build a mobile application for real time analysis and prediction of blood sugar level with input of the type of food you are having.But I am not sure whether this instant prediction will be beneficial for both type of diabetes or only for type 1?Who are the people who might be needing instant prediction ,can you give a feedback on that?

Thanks,
Sneha
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Sneha, I think the idea is a bit of a non-starter, I'm afraid. Predicting a blood sugar level based on food input would fail to take into account all the other possible factors that can affect blood sugar levels. I would imagine that having to enter information about all these additional factors would be an unnecessary waste of time as the intention for any person with diabetes, of whatever type, is to achieve a blood sugar level that is 'in-range' i.e. within a range similar to those a non-diabetic person might expect. The reaction to different types of food can be very particular to the individual, which is something that is gained through experience, and once you have that experience, you would know beforehand the likely outcome for any particular food choices, so a prediction would be redundant.

For anyone on a 'basal/bolus' insulin regime an estimate of the amount of insulin to give for any particular food is useful, but this facility already exists in the insulin pump and blood glucose meters that are available to those requiring it.

I don't see a use for the application, I'm afraid, sorry :(
 
Dose of insulin required also depends on eg exercise undertook in last few hours (up to 24 after endurance events) and expected in window of that dose (about 4 to 6 hrs, depending on profile of short acting used). Infection, weather, stress etc can all affect insulin / food requirements balance.
 
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