María J. Miranda Velasco*, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain Santiago Pérez, Unidad de Investigación en Telemedicina y e-Salud del ISCIII, Madrid, Spain Roberto Álvarez, Unidad de Investigación en Telemedicina y e-Salud del ISCIII, Madrid, Spain Mario Pascual, Unidad de Investigación en Telemedicina y e-Salud del ISCIII, Cáceres, Spain Gloria Solis, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain Javier Arroyo, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain Jesús González, Hospital San Pedro de Alcántara, Cáceres, Spain Gianni Carlone, Hospital Virgen del Puerto, Plasencia, Spain Alba Moríñigo M., University of Granada, Granada, Spain Mercedes Fernández, Hospital San Pedro de Alcántara, Cáceres, Spain Inmaculada Rojo, Hospital San Pedro de Alcántara, Cáceres, Spain Track: Research Presentation Topic: Building virtual communities and social networking applications for patients and consumers Presentation Type: Poster presentation Submission Type: Single Presentation Last modified: 2013-09-25

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Diabetes mellitus type 1 is one of the most common chronic diseases in childhood and adolescence. Evidence shows that education for diabetes self-management, is crucial for diabetes care in childhood and adolescence.
Objective. To know how diabetes e-learning programs, social methodologies based, and ICT resources, can promote children and adolescents competencies for health empowerment, treatment adherence and wellbeing. Encourage integral care, continuous support, participation, communication and coordination between the ecological care contexts: Family, school, pediatric.
Methods
Was designed, implement and evaluate the e-learning program of diabetes education, “Sharing Healthy Power” Supported by a virtual platform that provides a number of services and tools, Comprises a repository of digital educational recourses designed and classified by age and time of disease; pediatric consensus-based, national and regional policies and international standards of childhood diabetes care. webgraphy, games, magazines, articles, news, books, links. multimedia distributed repositories, survey creation and management. Collaborative work services as agenda and notifications. whiteboard and desktop sharing. Synchronous and asynchronous social resources for promoting participation. It has some additional features: management services, auditing procedures and internationalization-localization mechanisms.
Including one application android for tablet and mobile technologies, m-health App “my self-control diary” for management daily treatment and promoting healthy behavior.
The educational research was developed at various stages:
1.Assessments of educational needs of the families, children, teachers, health professionals and their context of care.
2.Design and planning the diabetes e-learning program “Sharing healthy power”
3.Development of the PAED technological platform as an open-source based infrastructure for care context: Family, school, sanitary.
The Trial Research of the impact of the e-learning program diabetes education in users and the PAED virtual platform usability.
The sample comprises children and adolescents with diabetes type 1 from 6-16 years old, parents, school teacher and sanitary professionals from 4 Hospitals setting. Qualitative and quantitative research tools were used . Questionnaires, test and observational methodologies.
The variables studied were demographics, age and time of disease, diabetes education, usability m-app android, usability virtual platform, technological competencies, Knowledge and skills for diabetes self-management.
Results
Parents, teachers, children and pediatricians team they appreciate the advantages of the virtual platform for diabetes education, continuous support, participation and coordination. Generally users have technological recourses and some competencies, but they need to have specific technological skills to use technological resources and social network properly.
Conclusions: e-learning program and technological resources can be a good solution for integral care, coordination of context of care, health empowerment. The sanitary context needs a new organization for management e-health programs.
Further research is needed about the effectiveness of educational platform for education in the field of chronic diseases.