Nursing Education on Diabetes Through Smartphone Therapeutic Applications

Hypoglycemia is a frequent complication in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. By providing education, awareness among diabetic patients could be increased to prevent hypoglycemia. Indonesia has yet to widely implement smartphone-based education programs for hypoglycemia prevention. This study aimed to assess the feasibility of a smartphone application-based diabetes education model, developed using the health belief model and social cognitive theory, to enhance the ability of diabetes mellitus patients to detect hypoglycemia.

This design and development research utilized a pre-test and post-test design without a control group and was done on 64 diabetics between May and September 2023. Statistical analyses were performed using the paired t-test.

The mean patient's score on the ability to prevent hypoglycemia was 45.13 before the intervention. After the intervention, the patient's ability increased by 3.21 to reach 48.34. The paired t-test yielded a p-value of 0.0001, indicating a significant difference in the ability to detect hypoglycemia before and after the intervention.

Nursing Education Diabetic Therapeutic Application (NEDTA) was declared feasible to use in detecting hypoglycemia.