Effectiveness of the User-Centered “Healthcare CEO” App for Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Transitioning From Adolescence to Early Adulthood: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Yueh-Tao Chiang   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Hsing-Yi Yu   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Pei-Kwei Tsay   ⁴ , PhD ;   Chi-Wen Chen   ⁵ , PhD ;   Chi-Wen Chang   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Chien-Lung Hsu   ^{6, 7, 8} , PhD ;   Fu-Sung Lo   ^{2, 9 *} , BMed ;   Philip Moons   ^{10, 11, 12 *} , PhD

¹ School of Nursing, College of Medicine, Chang-Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

² Division of Pediatric Endocrinology & Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

³ Department of Nursing, New Taipei Municipal Tu-Cheng Hospital, New Taipei, Taiwan

⁴ Department of Public Health and Center of Biostatistics, College of Medicine,, Chang-Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

⁵ College of Nursing, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei,, Taiwan

⁶ Department of Information Management, Chang-Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

⁷ Graduate Institute of Management, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

⁸ Master of Science Degree Program in Innovation for Smart Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

⁹ College of Medicine, Chang-Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

¹⁰ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

¹¹ Institute of Health and Care Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

¹² Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

*these authors contributed equally