Blood Glucose Awareness Training

Blood Glucose Awareness Training At Home (BGAThomeWA) is a website designed to help people with type 1 diabetes better detect and understand their blood glucose signs and symptoms to reduce the occurrence of hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia.

The program is an adaptation of BGAThome, which was developed and tested by a team at the University of Virginia in the US.

Thanks to a grant from the Diabetes Research Foundation of WA, for the past 18 months Professor Skinner and a team from the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health have been working with Diabetes WA to review and adapt BGAThome for people living in Western Australia. The result is BGAThomeWA.

We currently have a group of people with type 1 diabetes trialling the BGAThomeWA website to determine its effectiveness in helping to reduce fear and incidence of hypoglycaemia. The trial is scheduled to be completed by February 2011 and, pending its outcome, a plan will be developed for the future of BGAThomeWA. If the results are positive, there is a possibility that the website will be made available on the Diabetes WA website.