Award
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases 5R21DK134815-03
Transforming motivational interviewing into a computable model for automated patient diabetic counseling.
Recipient
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Award Amount
$196,840.00
Ceiling
$196,840.00
Awarded
July 31, 2026
Identifier
5R21DK134815-03
Development of an AI-based software agent to automate motivational interviewing for diabetic patient counseling, improving health outcomes and addressing clinical practice challenges.
Description
The project aims to develop a software agent, named “TROI”, that models and emulates Motivational Interviewing (MI) counseling methods for diabetic-related behavior. It involves creating ontology models for MI, conducting simulations, and evaluating the tool with MI experts and diabetic patients. The goal is to automate MI counseling to improve health outcomes related to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by addressing training, consistency, and time constraints in clinical practice.