Digitising diabetes education for a safer ramadan: design, delivery, and evaluation of massive open online courses in ramadan-focused diabetes education
Aims Ramadan-focused diabetes education is critical to facilitate safer Ramadan fasting amongst Muslim people living with diabetes. We present the design, delivery, and evaluation of two parallel massive open online courses (MOOCs) in Ramadan-focused diabetes education for people with diabetes and...
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| author | Mackenzie, Scott C. Dickson, Jane Salma, Mehar Mohd Yusof, Barakatun Nisak Adhari, Alsemi Bilal, Aksi Stage Baxter, Mats Bickerton, Alex Bharaj, Harnovdeep Singh Conway, Nicholas M. Cumming, Kirsten Lim, Lee-Ling Nader, Lessan Ghouri, Nazim T. Flax, Tracey A. Osei-Kwasi, Hibbah |
| author_facet | Mackenzie, Scott C. Dickson, Jane Salma, Mehar Mohd Yusof, Barakatun Nisak Adhari, Alsemi Bilal, Aksi Stage Baxter, Mats Bickerton, Alex Bharaj, Harnovdeep Singh Conway, Nicholas M. Cumming, Kirsten Lim, Lee-Ling Nader, Lessan Ghouri, Nazim T. Flax, Tracey A. Osei-Kwasi, Hibbah |
| author_sort | Mackenzie, Scott C. |
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Ramadan-focused diabetes education is critical to facilitate safer Ramadan fasting amongst Muslim people living with diabetes. We present the design, delivery, and evaluation of two parallel massive open online courses (MOOCs) in Ramadan-focused diabetes education for people with diabetes and HCPs.
Methods
Two Ramadan-focused diabetes education MOOCs were developed and delivered for Ramadan 2023: one for HCPs in English, and another for people with diabetes in English, Arabic and Malay. A user-centred iterative design process was adopted, informed by user feedback from a 2022 pilot MOOC. Evaluation comprised a mixed-methods evaluation of pre- and post-course user surveys.
Results
The platform was utilised by people with diabetes and their family, friends and healthcare professionals. Overall, a total of 1531 users registered for the platform from 50 countries, 809 started a course with a 48% subsequent completion rate among course starters. Qualitative analysis showed users found the course a user-friendly and authoritative information source. In the HCP MOOC, users reported improved post-MOOC Ramadan awareness, associated diabetes knowledge and ability to assess and advise patients in relation to their diabetes during Ramadan (p<0.01).
Conclusions
We demonstrate the potential of MOOCs to deliver culturally tailored, high-quality, scalable, multilingual Ramadan-focused diabetes education to HCPs and people with diabetes. |
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| spelling | upm-1110432024-04-24T02:57:20Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/111043/ Digitising diabetes education for a safer ramadan: design, delivery, and evaluation of massive open online courses in ramadan-focused diabetes education Mackenzie, Scott C. Dickson, Jane Salma, Mehar Mohd Yusof, Barakatun Nisak Adhari, Alsemi Bilal, Aksi Stage Baxter, Mats Bickerton, Alex Bharaj, Harnovdeep Singh Conway, Nicholas M. Cumming, Kirsten Lim, Lee-Ling Nader, Lessan Ghouri, Nazim T. Flax, Tracey A. Osei-Kwasi, Hibbah Aims Ramadan-focused diabetes education is critical to facilitate safer Ramadan fasting amongst Muslim people living with diabetes. We present the design, delivery, and evaluation of two parallel massive open online courses (MOOCs) in Ramadan-focused diabetes education for people with diabetes and HCPs. Methods Two Ramadan-focused diabetes education MOOCs were developed and delivered for Ramadan 2023: one for HCPs in English, and another for people with diabetes in English, Arabic and Malay. A user-centred iterative design process was adopted, informed by user feedback from a 2022 pilot MOOC. Evaluation comprised a mixed-methods evaluation of pre- and post-course user surveys. Results The platform was utilised by people with diabetes and their family, friends and healthcare professionals. Overall, a total of 1531 users registered for the platform from 50 countries, 809 started a course with a 48% subsequent completion rate among course starters. Qualitative analysis showed users found the course a user-friendly and authoritative information source. In the HCP MOOC, users reported improved post-MOOC Ramadan awareness, associated diabetes knowledge and ability to assess and advise patients in relation to their diabetes during Ramadan (p<0.01). Conclusions We demonstrate the potential of MOOCs to deliver culturally tailored, high-quality, scalable, multilingual Ramadan-focused diabetes education to HCPs and people with diabetes. Elsevier 2024 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/111043/1/Ramadan_and_Diabetes2024.pdf Mackenzie, Scott C. and Dickson, Jane and Salma, Mehar and Mohd Yusof, Barakatun Nisak and Adhari, Alsemi and Bilal, Aksi and Stage Baxter, Mats and Bickerton, Alex and Bharaj, Harnovdeep Singh and Conway, Nicholas and M. Cumming, Kirsten and Lim, Lee-Ling and Nader, Lessan and Ghouri, Nazim and T. Flax, Tracey and A. Osei-Kwasi, Hibbah (2024) Digitising diabetes education for a safer ramadan: design, delivery, and evaluation of massive open online courses in ramadan-focused diabetes education. Primary Care Diabetes. pp. 1-7. ISSN 1751-9918 (In Press) https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1751991824000652 10.1016/j.pcd.2024.03.002 |
| spellingShingle | Mackenzie, Scott C. Dickson, Jane Salma, Mehar Mohd Yusof, Barakatun Nisak Adhari, Alsemi Bilal, Aksi Stage Baxter, Mats Bickerton, Alex Bharaj, Harnovdeep Singh Conway, Nicholas M. Cumming, Kirsten Lim, Lee-Ling Nader, Lessan Ghouri, Nazim T. Flax, Tracey A. Osei-Kwasi, Hibbah Digitising diabetes education for a safer ramadan: design, delivery, and evaluation of massive open online courses in ramadan-focused diabetes education |
| title | Digitising diabetes education for a safer ramadan: design, delivery, and evaluation of massive open online courses in ramadan-focused diabetes education |
| title_full | Digitising diabetes education for a safer ramadan: design, delivery, and evaluation of massive open online courses in ramadan-focused diabetes education |
| title_fullStr | Digitising diabetes education for a safer ramadan: design, delivery, and evaluation of massive open online courses in ramadan-focused diabetes education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digitising diabetes education for a safer ramadan: design, delivery, and evaluation of massive open online courses in ramadan-focused diabetes education |
| title_short | Digitising diabetes education for a safer ramadan: design, delivery, and evaluation of massive open online courses in ramadan-focused diabetes education |
| title_sort | digitising diabetes education for a safer ramadan: design, delivery, and evaluation of massive open online courses in ramadan-focused diabetes education |
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