Project Implementation: Glucose Buddy and ADA Diet for Diabetes

This project implementation paper addresses a PICOT question: 'In adults aged 40-65 with type 2 Diabetes, can the addition of a mobile application program such as Glucose Buddy to an ADA diet versus a strict ADA weight-based diet affect the reduction of blood glucose level or A1c over three months?' The paper outlines the stakeholder groups, including project leaders, managers, health professionals, and patient groups, and describes their roles. It establishes a theoretical foundation using the Theory of Reasoned Action and presents a conceptual framework. Educational needs for both intervention and control groups are identified, alongside a detailed plan for delivering the intervention, which involves social media marketing, offline education, and community healthcare sector involvement. The educational intervention emphasizes the value of the project, progress updates, and stakeholder participation. The paper aims to demonstrate the potential of mobile app-assisted ADA diets in improving diabetes management. References include studies supporting the use of technology and dietary modifications in diabetes care.

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Introduction:
The essay aims to implement a PICOT project where the guiding question is” In adults
aged 40-65 with type 2 Diabetes, can the addition of a mobile application program such as
Glucose Buddy to an ADA diet versus a strict ADA weight-based diet affect the reduction of
blood glucose level or A1c over three months”? The paper aims to describe all the stakeholder
groups, the role of each group, theoretical foundation and conceptual framework and planning
for delivering intervention and description of educational intervention in the following
paragraphs.
Description of the stakeholder group and their role:
To implement the Picot project, the stakeholders' group would be two groups. The first
group would be a project group which consists of project leaders, senior manager, health
professionals, project team and quality control supervisor. In this context, the role of the project
leader is to design the project and ensure successful implementation. The role of the senior
manager is to ensure all process of the implementation would be effective. The role of project
team members would be providing intervention, contacting focus group and monitoring their
progress. The role of the quality control supervisor is to facilitate the effectiveness of the
intervention.
On the other hand, the second group would be two groups of patients 40-65 aged with type 2
Diabetes. The role of intervention group is to involve in the project where Glucose Buddy to an
ADA diet would be assigned to them. On the other hand, the role of the control group to involve
in the project where a strict ADA weight-based diet would be assigned to them.

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Glucose Buddy to an ADA diet versus a strict ADA
ADA diet
Education
Blood glucose level
track meals
Planned exercise
Theoretical foundation and conceptual framework:
In united states, adults aged 40-65 with type 2 Diabetes experience challenges regarding
self-management due to lack of training, limited knowledge regarding self-management and
limited access to specialized care. While dietary modifications such as by implementing the
ADA diet is effective in reducing high blood glucose, majority of the patients lack self-
management (Doupis et al., 2020). In this context, Veazie et al. (2018), suggested technologic
enables patients to track meals, detailed record of dietary format, planned physical activity and
hypoglycaemia. In this context, the theory that would guide the adaptation is the Theory of
Reasoned Action which suggested that changing perception about the technology can increase
the use of technology which in turn facilitate high glucose control (Yzer 2017).
The conceptual framework would be the following:
figure: conceptual framework

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Identify educational needs for each group:
In this context, two educational need would be identified. The first education need would
be the effectiveness of the ADA diet for improving the blood glucose level for the control group.
The second education need would be the significance and skills of technology like Glucose so
that high glucose control can be improved.
Outline a plan for delivering the intervention:
In this context, delivering the intervention would be the following:
 Through social media-based marketing and offline marketing
 After marketing, offline education would be provided regarding the significance of the
technology-based intervention, how behavioral change can facilitate blood glucose
control and skills regarding self-management
 After education, intervention would be provided within the community health care sector
to two different group
 The effectiveness of the intervention would be gathered after collecting the data
Description of the educational intervention:
The stakeholders would be told about the value of the project through face to face to
education in the community hall where poster, video and PowerPoint would be used to explain
the value of the project such as how the technical support is better than strict ADA diet (Marcus-
Varwijk et al., 2018). The literature support would be provided to exhibit the evidence-based
intervention. Progress of the project would be informed after via email and face to face
communication by exhibited the differences in the blood glucose level within 3 months. They

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will facilitate the project implementation by taking active participation, properly using the
technology to see the differences with the interventions. Lastly, after 2 weeks a checklist would
be provided to them so that they can provide feedback regarding the implementation of the
program and how it will enhance their blood glucose level.
Conclusion:
On a concluding note, it can be said that in united states, adults aged 40-65 with type 2
Diabetes experience challenges regarding self-management due to lack of training, limited
knowledge regarding self-management. Therefore, Glucose Buddy to an ADA diet is effective
compared to the ADA diet to manage the blood glucose level. Therefore, stakeholders group
would be two groups where the patient group would be actively taking part in the intervention.

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References:
Doupis, J., Festas, G., Tsilivigos, C., Efthymiou, V., & Kokkinos, A. (2020). Smartphone-Based
Technology in Diabetes Management. Diabetes Therapy, 1-13.
Marcus-Varwijk, A. E., Peters, L., Visscher, T., Smits, C., Ranchor, A., & Slaets, J. (2018).
Impact of a nurse-led health promotion intervention in an aging population: Results from
Community Health Consultation Offices for Seniors. International Journal of Integrated
Care (IJIC), 18.
Veazie, S., Winchell, K., Gilbert, J., Paynter, R., Ivlev, I., Eden, K. B., ... & Helfand, M. (2018).
Rapid evidence review of mobile applications for self-management of diabetes. Journal
of general internal medicine, 33(7), 1167-1176.
Yzer, M., 2017. Theory of reasoned action and theory of planned behavior. The International
Encyclopedia of Media Effects, pp.1-7.