SNAPSHOT

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  SNAPSHOT: Using a novel data capture tool to explore sedentary behaviour, nutrition and associated behaviours in younger adults with type 2 diabetes

• IRAS ID

  160881

• Contact name

  Charlotte Edwardson

• Contact email

  ce95@le.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  The University of Leicester

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 0 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  Research shows that type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is on the increase and is increasingly being diagnosed in younger age groups due to rising rates of obesity and sedentary lifestyles. When younger people are diagnosed with T2DM they usually experience more complications (i.e., problems with their eyes, feet, damage to their nerves and kidneys) from the disease as well as worse outcomes (i.e., heart attacks, early death) compared to older people diagnosed with T2DM.
  Lifestyle behaviours such as increasing physical activity and reducing time spent sitting help in the management of type 2 diabetes and reduce the risk of complications. Our research group wants to develop lifestyle programmes for people with diabetes to help them manage the disease more effectively. To do this we need to understand what people might want in a lifestyle programme, what things might influence their lifestyle behaviours (e.g., activity or diet), what barriers they face when making healthy lifestyle choices and what might help them to make lifestyle changes.
  This is important information for researchers because once they can understand this they can develop programmes to help people to improve their lifestyle.
  Our study involves adults aged 18-40 years with T2DM wearing an activity monitor to measure their physical activity and sitting time and a small automated wearable camera. We will use the data from the activity monitor to tells us the activity levels of this population and use the images captured on the camera (showing sitting and eating behaviours) as ‘triggers’ during interviews to prompt discussion about their lifestyle activities to find out what influences these behaviours (friends, family, colleagues, work or home environment), barriers they face around lifestyle choices and ideas for improving lifestyle behaviours.

• REC name

  East Midlands - Leicester Central Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  14/EM/1214

• Date of REC Opinion

  11 Dec 2014

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion