The purpose of this study is to determine whether cellular phone based health care system is effective in the treatment of diabetes and hypertension.
Diabetes care is facilitated by a patient's being engaged in a self-management program with the advice and counsel of physicians, but many diabetic patients can not receive the continous monitoing and advice from his physician in their every day life. It is very difficult to keep up life style modification in their real life. Few studies have examined the effects of cellular phone based intervention that provide an interactive component daily. Our goal is to test the hypothesis that diabetes and hypertension management using cellular phone based health care system would result in significant improvement of blood glucose and blood pressure level.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
140
Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine
Seoul, VD, South Korea
HbA1c, fasting blood glucose level, Weight change, Blood pressure level in the morning, lipid profiles
Time frame: baseline, 3months later
exercise time during one week, self reported change in dietary habit, fat consumption ratio
Time frame: baseline, 3months later
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