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Second Nature: Digital Lifestyle Change For Type 2 Diabetes (formerly OurPath)

By Michael Whitman, Second Nature Added 16th Jan, 2018 Updated 15th Oct, 2020

Second Nature is a digitally delivered lifestyle intervention designed to achieve weight loss, increase physical activity and develop sustainable healthy habits to reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes.

 

About

Our Product:

Second Nature provides a digital behavioural change programme that delivers:

  1. QISMET approved structured education on nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, and positive psychology
  2. Peer group support
  3. Personalised health coaching
  4. Tracking technology (smart weighing scales and a wearable activity tracker)

Outcomes:

Weight Loss

  1. 7.1kg weight loss at 6 months (60.1% achieved >5% weight loss and 29.4 achieved >10% weight loss, n=896)
  2. 6.1kg weight loss at 12 months (53.3% achieved >5% weight loss and 23.5% achieved >10% weight loss, n=896)
  3. 5.7kg weight loss at 24 months (n=304)

HbA1c 

  1. Average HbA1c reduction of 13.6 mmol/L at 3 months
  2. 40% lowered their HbA1c below the diagnostic threshold for diabetes

Engagement

  1. Uptake rate of 79% following referrals
  2. Completion rate of 84%

Cost Savings

  1. NICE has indicated interventions less than £1000 with a weight loss > 5% as being cost effective

Our Partners:

  1. Healthier You: National Diabetes Prevention Programme (NDPP)
  2. NHS Better Health Programme
  3. Adopted over 80 CCGs

Useful resources

Second Nature App Walkthrough

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