Mobile phone text-messaging to support treatment for people with type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa: a pragmatic individually randomised trial

niversity of Oxford0 sites1,066 target enrollmentAugust 3, 2015

Overview

2019 Protocol article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31199346 results (added 17/06/2019) 2021 Other publications in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33451308/ intervention development (added 18/01/2021) 2021 Other publications in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34418987/ Process evaluation (added 23/08/2021) 2021 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34674688/ (added 26/10/2021)

Registry

who.int

Start Date

August 3, 2015

End Date

April 1, 2019

Last Updated

3 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•1\. Participant is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study
•2\. Able to communicate in one of the predominant official languages spoken in the Western Cape (Cape Town) and Gauteng (Johannesburg) provinces (e.g. English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu and Sesotho), in South Africa and in Malawi, English or the Chichewa language
•3\. Male or female, aged 18 years of above
•4\. A diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
•5\. Taking oral glucose lowering treatment
•6\. Has access to a mobile\-phone (shared access is allowed with permission of phone owner)
•7\. Knows how to use SMS (it is okay if participant needs help to send or retrieve SMS)
•8\. Currently lives in the community served by the clinic and plans to live there for the next 18 months

•1\. Within three months of a hospital admission for hyperglycaemia or hypoglycaemia
•2\. Pregnant or within three months post\-partum by self\-report or with plans to become pregnant in the next 12 months
•3\. A terminal medical condition
•4\. Another member of the household already recruited to the trial
•5\. Participation in the formative work for the intervention