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Active, not recruitingNCT05729516Updated Apr 24, 2025

The Hope App Study

An interventional study of Hope App immersive learning and telehealth platform in Type 2 Diabetes, sponsored by See Yourself Health LLC. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 65 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-04-24.

Sponsored by See Yourself Health LLC · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jul 2025, 1 year 3 months ago, but the record still lists the study as active, not recruiting.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
150
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
65 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This research study will test how a computer program (called the Hope App) teaches diabetes care skills for older adults with diabetes. The study will compare those who receive diabetes education (10 educational modules and monthly health coaching) through the research program with those who receive care as usual.

Read the detailed description

The Hope App offers a simple, high-impact, engaging, and immersive telehealth experience with the potential to become a ubiquitous diabetes management tool to transform diabetes patients into high performing drivers of their own care.

The research team aims to scale the platform, develop features that are important to aging adults, and run a clinical trial to validate the Hope App's health benefits.

  • Specific Aim 1: Develop the Hope App's state-of-the-art immersive patient engagement experience with automated onboarding, social networking and gamified DSME/S features to support long-term patient retention. In doing so, usability testing will be performed to ensure patient-facing features on the platform and patient-facing content and curriculum materials are functioning and well received by participants.
  • Specific Aim 2: Develop the Hope App's predictive analytic capabilities for population health management.
  • Specific Aim 3: Conduct a clinical validation trial of the Hope App intervention on six-month clinical outcomes (Hemoglobin A1c), patient reported outcomes (diabetes distress) and engagement outcomes (patient retention, adherence to self-care behaviors).

The research team intends to deliver a scalable Hope App platform with a usable patient engagement portal designed for older adults and achieve decreases in blood glucose levels (HbA1c) and depressive burden, and sustained patient engagement.

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Conditions studied

  • Type 2 Diabetes

Keywords

  • older adults
  • telehealth
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In context

Lead sponsor

This is the only study on the registry with See Yourself Health LLC as lead sponsor.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
65 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • aged 65 years and above
  • diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
  • English-speaking
  • baseline blood sugar value (HbA1c) of 7.5%
  • Internet access

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • aged less than 65 years
  • non English-speaking
  • unable to provide informed consent
  • diagnosis of type 1 diabetes
  • unable to use a computer or mobile device
  • medical condition for which participation is contraindicated (dialysis, pregnancy, use of insulin pump)
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
150 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Immediate Treatment Group (ITG)

    ITG participants receive access to the Hope App, a newly designed immersive learning and telehealth application designed to deliver engaging diabetes care and self-management education and support for older adults with diabetes. ITG participants also complete data collection (surveys and HbA1c measurements) at baseline, 3 months after baseline, and 6 months after baseline.

    Behavioral: Hope App immersive learning and telehealth platform

  • No intervention
    Wait List Control (WLC)

    WLC participants receive care as usual for 6 months. They will complete data collection (surveys and HbA1c measurements) at baseline, 3 months after baseline, and 6 months after baseline. After 6 months, WLC participants will gain access to the Hope App and receive diabetes programming and health coaching for the remaining 6 months.

Interventions

  • BehavioralHope App immersive learning and telehealth platform

    As part of the Hope App intervention, participants attend 10 skills sessions related to diabetes self-management. ITG participants will also receive monthly health coaching calls. After 6 months of active participation, participants enter a maintenance period, during which programming concludes but continued access to the program materials remains.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. change in glycemic control

    change in HbA1c values recorded from point-of-care tests or in the electronic health record at visits. A mean change of 0.5% will be the a priori determined clinically meaningful minimum improvement from baseline to 6 months.

    Time frame: baseline and 6 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. changes in self-reported diabetes distress

    self-reported changes in diabetes distress scale

    Time frame: baseline to 3 months; 3 months to 6 months; baseline to 6 months

  2. self-reported weight change

    self-reported weight change in pounds

    Time frame: baseline to 3 months; 3 months to 6 months; baseline to 6 months

  3. changes in participant engagement

    proportion of utilization metrics met (frequency of use, feature interactions)

    Time frame: baseline to 3 months; 3 months to 6 months; baseline to 6 months

  4. changes in self-management adherence

    self-reported changes in the 11-item Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities Assessment. The first 10 items are summed to a total score and averaged to 5 scale scores; the scales are General Diet, Specific Diet, Exercise, Blood-Glucose Testing, and Foot Care. Mean number of days will be assessed for self-management behaviors. The 11th question assess smoking status (yes(1), no(0)).

    Time frame: baseline to 3 months; 3 months to 6 months; baseline to 6 months

  5. changes in medication adherence scale

    self-reported changes in the Medication Adherence Report Scale (MARS-5). There is also a 10-item version. The 5-item version asks respondents to rate the frequency with which the five different medication-taking behaviors occur, scoring each item on a five-point scale (5 = never to 1 = very often), with higher scores indicating higher levels of adherence to medication.

    Time frame: baseline to 3 months; 3 months to 6 months; baseline to 6 months

  6. changes in depressive burden symptoms

    self-reported changes in Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9. PHQ-9 total score over nine items ranges from 0-24, with higher scores indicative of greater depressive symptom burden.

    Time frame: baseline to 3 months; 3 months to 6 months; baseline to 6 months

  7. changes in general anxiety symptoms

    self-reported changes in General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)-7 questionnaire. GAD-7 total score over seven items ranges from 0-21, with higher scores indicative of increased symptoms of anxiety.

    Time frame: baseline to 3 months; 3 months to 6 months; baseline to 6 months

  8. changes in coping skills

    self-reported changes to Brief Resilient Coping Scale. The total score over 4 items ranges from 4-20, with higher scores indicative of high resilient coping.

    Time frame: baseline to 3 months; 3 months to 6 months; baseline to 6 months

  9. changes in perceived support from healthcare providers

    self-reported changes in Healthcare Climate Questionnaire

    Time frame: baseline to 3 months; 3 months to 6 months; baseline to 6 months

  10. changes in perceived competence

    self-reported changes in Perceived Competence in Diabetes Scale. There are 4-items on a Likert scale from 1-7 with higher scores representing a higher degree to which people with diabetes feel they can self-manage their diabetes. The mean score is used as a summary score.

    Time frame: baseline to 3 months; 3 months to 6 months; baseline to 6 months

  11. changes in perceived diabetes self-efficacy

    self-reported changes in diabetes self-efficacy scale. There are 8 items on a Likert scale from 1 to 10. The score for the scale is the mean of the eight items. Higher number is indicative of higher self-efficacy.

    Time frame: baseline to 3 months; 3 months to 6 months; baseline to 6 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • See Yourself Health
    Beverly, Massachusetts 01915, United States
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 24, 2025, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05729516
Lead sponsor
See Yourself Health LLC
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 15, 2023
Start date
May 24, 2024
Primary completion
Jul 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Aug 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 24, 2025

Study contacts

Suzanne Mitchell, MD, MS
principal investigator · See Yourself Health LLC

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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