Community Web Health Portal for Diabetes Prevention

The Primary Goal of the Phase I Research Was to Demonstrate Feasibility of Creating and Running an Incentive-based Wellness Portal for a Local Community (Princeton, NJ) That Involved Designing the System, Building a Prototype, Testing the System, and Assessing User Acceptance.

This study supports the development of a diabetes prevention and control community web portal. The portal will feature an innovative personalized impediment profiling tool and reward program. The program, "Nutrition Navigation on-Line Edge," or NnoLEDGE, will be used by community consortiums for weight loss and diabetic health interventions within their communities.

The Specific Aims are:

1. Recruitment of local community organizations to participate as a community health consortium
2. Development of a comprehensive community health web portal consisting of a web portal, impediment profiler, community toolbox, and rewards system
3. Final evaluation of the system with regard to participants' attitudes and perceptions of using NnoLEDGE as a tool for weight control and diabetes prevention to determine feasibility.

Inclusion Criteria:

• can read and write English

Exclusion Criteria:

• cannot read and write Engish