H2O Diabetes Meta-tool
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Pilot implementation and validation of the H2O diabetes meta-tool.
IRAS ID
363010
Contact name
Marietta Stadler
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
King's College London
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Not applicable, Not applicable
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 2 months, 31 days
Research summary
This study aims to improve diabetes care by asking service users about more than just their medical results like blood sugar levels, for example asking how they are feeling and how well they are managing diabetes day to day. We call this sort of feedback ‘patient-report outcomes (PROs)’ and it is shared through questionnaires called ‘patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs).
We already know which aspects of diabetes and diabetes care (i.e. PROs) should be asked about in routine care. However, this is quite a long list of things to talk about in a healthcare visit and the questionnaires can contain a lot of questions that take a long time to complete. Instead of asking service users to complete questionnaires that might not be relevant to everyone, we would like to first ask service users a quick ‘screening’ question about each aspect of diabetes and diabetes care. Only service users that answer the screening question in a certain way will then be asked to complete the questionnaire. We are calling the set of screening questions that we have developed a ‘meta-tool’. We now need to:
• Check that these questions are actually asking about the things that we want them to (i.e. whether they are valid).
• Find out which answer (I.e. score) for each question tells us that someone might need more support and that they should complete a questionnaire.
• Find out how important it is to ask people with diabetes about these aspects of the condition and diabetes care.In summary, this study aims to explore the validity and obtain information to support the use of a set of PRO screening questions for healthcare professionals (HCPs) that will help them improve diabetes care. It also aims to find out how important it is that these sorts of questions should be used in diabetes care.
REC name
East Midlands - Derby Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
26/EM/0043
Date of REC Opinion
9 Feb 2026
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion