Advancement level of mobile applications intended for type 1 diabetes therapy supporting

Nowicki Tomasz, Nowicki Grzegorz, Ślusarska Barbara. Advancement level of mobile applications intended for type 1 diabetes therapy supporting. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2020;10(9):704-713. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2020.10.09.085

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Received: 21.09.2020. Revised: 24.09.2020. Accepted: 26.09.2020.

Advancement level of mobile applications intended for type 1 diabetes therapy supporting

Tomasz Jerzy Nowicki¹, Grzegorz Józef Nowicki², Barbara Ślusarska³

1. Department of Internet of Things, Institute of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty, Lublin University of Technology

2. Department of Family Medicine and Community Nursing, Chair of Oncology and Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lublin, Poland

Tomasz Jerzy Nowicki (ORCID: 0000-0003-0752-2509; e-mail: t.nowicki@pollub.pl),

Grzegorz Józef Nowicki (ORCID: 0000-0002-0503-8847; e-mail: gnowicki84@gmail.com),

Barbara Ślusarska (ORCID: 0000-0003-0101-9216; e-mail: basiaslusarska@gmail.com)

ABSTRACT

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycaemia due to defective secretion and/or action of insulin. Chronic hyperglycaemia is associated with damage, dysfunction, and failure of various organs, in particular eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart, and blood vessels.  It is estimated that the number of patients with type 1 diabetes accounts for about 10% of all diabetics, even more children and young adults i.e. under 30 constitute between 85 – 90 % of morbidities.  The fundamental part of type 1 diabetes therapy is providing patient with an external insulin therapy. The objective of this research was to formulate requirements concerning mobile applications for diabetes 1 therapy as well as an overview and a classification of such applications currently available. This paper includes a set of 20 requirements for mobile applications intended for type 1 diabetes patients. Some of them are beyond the possibilities of the modern-day IT industry. Nowadays there is no applications that meets all of the criteria. However, the tendency to fulfill all of them can be noticed.

Key words: type 1 diabetes mellitus, therapy of type 1 diabetes, mobile applications