1. Gillian Barry, Celine Campbell,Catherine Curtin, Paolo Defant, Mary Duggan, Ross Moriarty

2. WhatDiabetes mellitus is a lifelong condition caused by a lack, orinsufficiency of insulinIn diabetes, the pancreas makes toolittle insulin to enable all the sugar in your blood to get intoyour muscle and other cells to produce energy. If sugar cantget into the cells to be used, it builds up in the bloodstream.Therefore, diabetes is characterized by high blood sugarlevels.(Diabetes Ireland, 2012) 3. Who Over 45 Overweight Family history During pregnancy 4. How Many 5. How Much 10% of national health budget (CODEIRE, 2006) 10% NHS budget 2011 (diabetes.co.uk, 2012) Irish health budget 2011 = 14.5 billion 6. Telehealth Outpatient care Examples: Blood pressure Information and monitor support Pulse oximeter Weighing scales Bloodglucometer 7. Diabetes and TelehealthIDEATEL and DIABTEL: Dedicated Technologies Monitor vital signs, recorddiet/exercise, communicate withphysician Effective but impractical Targeted at those already diagnosed 8. Diabetes and Telehealth 2Existing technologies and informationbased approaches: Education and support Online, phone or videoconferencing Wider audience Live vs. automated services (Mori et al,2011) 9. Diabetes and Weight Loss Weight loss vs. management As or more effective than medicine (Knowler et al, 2002) Safer/healthier than medication (Boul, Haddad, Kenny, Wells & Sigal, 2001) Patient in control(Turner-McGrievy et al, 2008) 10. Weight Loss and Telehealth Offline vs. online approach (Collins, Morgan, Warren, Lubans & Callister, 2011) Passive vs. Active (Tate, Wing & Winett, 2001) Self-monitoring recommended 11. Desired Features User friendly design Content management Logo for identification Simple creation 12. Google Sites Free hosting and gadgets/apps Simple editor Limited HTML options Embedding option Problems with Twitter feed Unlimited pages 13. Sources of Information Diabetes Ireland Diabetes UK Canadian Diabetes Association American Diabetes Association Diabetes Australia World Health Organisation (WHO) 14. https://sites.google.com/site/diabetespreventionireland 15. Live Trial3 Stages: Background information Usability testing Awareness and results 16. Recruitment Process Convenience sampling 16 participants aged 40+ No history of diabetes Privacy and anonymity assured 17. Pre-Questionnaire Age / gender / occupation Exercise and dietary habits Level of fitness Internet literacy Familiarity health/lifestyle websites and apps 18. Pre-Questionnaire Results 1 Graph 1 - Gender Average age: 55 Gender: Female 53%Male 7Female 9 Male 47%Graph 2 - Do you consider your diet to behealthySomewhatYes 7 7 Healthy diet: > 80%No 2 19. Pre-Questionnaire Results 2Graph 3 - Level of fitness Good or averageGood 4 level of fitness (75%)Average 8 Poor 4 Internet as aGraph 4 - Internet as source of information source of for diet/lifestyle matters informationYes 7 (