EMPOWERing Patients With Chronic Diseases Through Smartphone App, Health Coaching and Shared Decision Making

"The EMPOWER app aims to nudge the participant towards successful self-management of their diabetes condition by encouraging and reinforcing positive lifestyle behaviors in 3 main aspects - diet, physical activity, medication adherence. Notifications included content based on behavioural change technique including feedback on performance, positive reinforcement, and prompts to self-monitor. Each notification focused on a single behaviour (physical activity, medication adherence or diet).~The participants in the intervention group will also interact with health coach throughout the study duration. In this study, the health coach will be responsible for the following roles :~1. Goal setting and action plan~2. After-visit summary~A report card summarizing the lifestyle behaviour, goals will be made available to facilitate shared decision making."