Mirame salud: immersive diabetes self-management training for latino americans
Ended Project Grant Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- R43MD020239
- Recipient
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See Yourself Health LLC UEI NPQUY6B2S673
- Awarding agency
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National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
- Obligated
- $771,632
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research
- Completion date
- Place of performance
- Massachusetts, USA
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Description
- Abstract
- Mirame salud diabetes affects 37 million americans at an annual cost of $412 billion. Latino americans are disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes (T2DM), compared with non-latino whites (12.6% VS. 6.9% prevalence) at a cost of $8865PP/YR. They are twice as likely to incur diabetes complications and 1.3 times more likely to DIE of diabetes. Self-management struggles are also stark with low rates of medication adherence, physical activity, and increased diabetes distress. To promote health equity, curb escalating prevalence and mitigate costs and disparities, a population health solution is urgently needed that serves more diverse patients' self-care needs and equips providers and payors with tools to intervene before costly complications are incurred. Essential to population health management is effective patient engagement -- to bolster patients' digital literacy, health literacy and self-management skills to enable them to serve as high-performing care partners. Mhealth for diabetes uses smart phones to deliver digital diabetes tools and services and to reach patients who struggle with access to care. Yet, barriers to digital resources still stymie efforts for health equity. Specifically, cultural, language and digital literacy barriers interfere with the ability for latinos to meaningfully engage with digital diabetes care apps and technologies. Many latinos also require educational resources in spanish. Yet, only 22% of diabetes apps are translated into spanish, and some solutions, such as immersive technologies, until recently could not be accessed with smartphones. SYH's team uses avatar-driven immersive technology to deliver highly engaging experiential patient education and telehealth services. Our proprietary instructional game design boosts patient engagement in self-management training and overcomes reading and digital literacy barriers by reducing demand on reading skills and instead leverages experiential learning. An ideal digital health tool for latinos with T2DM is a mobile application offering immersive, culturally and linguistically tailored dsmt experiences and social support that can eventually be integrated with population management tools in a hub platform. SYH has proven expertise in developing health literacy programs for digitally marginalized populations with chronic disease. Our phase i goal is to create and test usability of a new platform, mirame salud, a culturally and linguistically tailored diabetes care hub, using SYH's novel constructivist curriculum, virtual/augmented reality, and webxr technology, to deliver immersive, interactive dsmt programs with smartphones for latino americans.
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Who received award R43MD020239?
R43MD020239 was awarded to See Yourself Health LLC by National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (National Institutes of Health) on April 29, 2025.
How much is award R43MD020239 worth?
$771,632 has been obligated on R43MD020239.
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