Multimedia Guidance for Diabetes Intensive Therapy

The long-term objective is to develop an interactive, multimedia product that will assist physicianprofessionals in helping appropriately selected patients with IDDM adopt individualized intensive thproduct will provide guidance for achieving, as optimally as possible for a given individual, the trDiabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT). Specific aims of Phase I are to (1) convene a multiDCCT experts to determine the critical content of an intensive therapy regimen for inclusion in a mudefine objectives, methods, and strategies for delivering the selected content in an interactive mulproduce a design document for the full multimedia product to be developed in a Phase II effort. Thephysicians assess a patient's readiness to undertake an intensive therapy regimen, select an approprindividual patient, develop a plan to achieve the regimen, an monitor and evaluate implementation ofapplication of multimedia technology will help physicians and other health care professionals learntherapy and encourage its use among appropriate patients with IDDM.