Mobile Phone Intervention for Increasing Adherence to Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes in an Urban Area of Bangladesh: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- DIABETESE11Type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Registration Number
- DRKS00005188
- Lead Sponsor
- ICDDR, B
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 216
•Diagnosed as Type2 diabetic patient according to WHO criteria
•Currently on oral medication therapy and able to afford cost for 6 months treatment
•Patients with a personal mobile phone
•Patients who know how to retrieve/read SMS on mobile phone (Bangla with English alphabets)
•Willingness to receive SMS for 6 months at least one SMS per day
•Patient registered with the health centre and lives in Dhaka city
•Provide written informed consent and agree for a follow up visit after 6 months. (SMS reminders will be sent for the follow up visit).
•Patients whose clinical condition might have interfered with the study such as uncontrolled diabetes, mental illness, other serious illness or co-morbidities
•Patients unable to give their informed consent or agree for follow up visit.
•Patients who do not own a mobile phone or cannot read SMS messages
•Patients who reside outside Dhaka city
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary outcome measurements will be performed after 6 months of intervention, as follows:<br><br>•Changes in HbA1c (Compare HbA1C at baseline and after 6 months)<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary outcome measurements will be performed after 6 months as follows:<br><br>•Self-reported medication adherence (measured by Morisky-8 Medication Adherence Questionnaire)<br>•Clinic attendance (Self-reported questionnaires and hospital records)<br>•Quality of Life (EQ-5D Questionnaires)<br>•Cost effectiveness of SMS interventions in reducing HbA1c (Questionnaires)<br>