A Randomized Controlled Trial of Short Message Service by Cellular Phone for Professional Drivers With Pre-diabetes
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Pre-diabetes
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
- Enrollment
- 104
- Locations
- 3
- Primary Endpoint
- incidence rate of DM
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 12 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to prevent the professional drivers from pre-diabetes to diabetes.
Detailed Description
Mobile phone use is almost a routine part of society worldwide. All mobile phones can deliver and receive short-messaging service text messages, providing a perfect medium for delivering information and support. Since short-messaging service is little exploited in clinical research or practice in Chinese population, this study examined the effectiveness of one-way messaging which is less expensive and is easier to undertake. We aimed to determine the effectiveness of using SMS to provide pre-diabetes and diabetes information by promoting healthy lifestyle modification and reducing the two-hour post-glucose loading plasma glucose, the risk of acquiring Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus among professional drivers with pre-diabetes.
Investigators
WONG King Ho Carlos
Post-doctoral Fellow
The University of Hong Kong
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •identified within the last 3 months with pre-diabetes which is defined as a fasting plasma glucose level of 5.6-6.9 mmol/L or a two-hour level after a 75 grams glucose load of 7.8-11 mmol/L based on the World Health Organization 1998 criteria;
- •accessible by mobile phone that could receive Chinese text messages.
Exclusion Criteria
- •a history of diabetes mellitus;
- •currently on medicines known to alter glucose tolerance;
- •did not have a mobile phone;
- •unable to read Chinese characters;
- •refused to take part in current study.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
incidence rate of DM
Time Frame: Follow-up in 12 months
the incidence rate of DM during first year 12-month period
Secondary Outcomes
- Body mass index(Baseline, follow-up in 12 months and 24 months)
- Waist Circumference(Baseline, follow-up in 12 months and 24 months)
- Blood pressure(Baseline, follow-up in 12 months and 24 months)
- incidence of DM(Follow-up in 24 months)
- Fasting Glucose(Baseline, follow-up in 12 months and 24 months)
- Lipid profile(Baseline, follow-up in 12 months and 24 months)