As of 2021, approximately 8% of the worlds population has type 2 diabetes, with some estimates being much higher due to underdiagnosis. Diabetes is an important risk factor for other serious diseases such as cardiovascular disease. If left untreated, diabetes can lead to serious health problems including neuropathy or blindness. Diabetes has several stages of severity, and it is sometimes described in terms of a larger process called cardiometabolic syndrome.
Since blood testing is not always available, there is a need to have a simple way to identify people who are at risk of having diabetes, so that they can be referred to a clinic for diagnosis. For doing this screening function, a standard questionnaire is often used, which is known as the "diabetes risk score." Since there are many medical researchers doing studies with diabetes, it is useful to have a mobile app version of this diabetes questionnaire.

Since India is one of the places in the world with the highest burden of diabetes, a popular diabetes questionnaire is the Indian diabetes risk score, or IDRS.
There are many published academic papers regarding this questionnaire. One classic reference is listed here:
http://repository.ias.ac.in/80170/

This mobile app provides an updated version of the classic IDRS questionnaire, which includes other correlated features of diabetes such as higher waist to hip ratio, as well as certain psychological factors. This app can be used by itself, or it can be used as part of a suite of apps that is used to do health screening or diagnostic support.

By itself, this mobile app does not collect or share any data with a server. But this app can be used together with ANOTHER mobile app that is designed to collect data and store it in a secure database as part of a clinical study.
As an example, the Diabetes questionnaire can be used together with the Diabetes Screener mobile app that provides database support and send data to a remote server. You can view the Diabetes Screener mobile app in this link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiletechnologylab.diabetes_screener&hl=en_US&gl=US

An example of how these apps can be used together is demonstrated in the following YouTube video (for the case of Pulmonary Screener):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4p5Uaq32FU

If you wish to use this mobile app as part of a clinical study using smart phone data collection, please contact our lab for more information.

Thank you.

Contact:
-- Rich Fletcher ([email protected])
MIT Mobile Technology Lab
Mechanical Engineering Dept.