Development and Testing of a Mobile App for Management of Gestational Diabetes in Nepal: Protocol for a User-Centered Design Study and Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial

Lauren T Berube   ¹ , RDN, PhD ;   Archana Shrestha   ^{2, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Abha Shrestha   ⁵ , MD ;   Jean-Francois Daneault   ⁶ , PhD ;   Prabin Raj Shakya   ⁷ , MS ;   Meghnath Dhimal   ⁸ , PhD ;   Roman Shrestha   ⁹ , PhD ;   Shristi Rawal   ¹⁰ , PhD

¹ Public Health Nutrition Program, Department of Epidemiology, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, NY, United States

² Institute for Implementation Science and Health, Kathmandu, Nepal

³ Department of Public Health, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Nepal

⁴ Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Center of Methods for Implementation and Prevention Science, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States

⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dhulikhel Hospital-Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal

⁶ Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences, School of Health Professions, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, United States

⁷ Lab of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

⁸ Nepal Health Research Council, Kathmandu, Nepal

⁹ Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States

¹⁰ Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, United States