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Joint Event
Nutrition and Health
16
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International Conference on
26
th
International Conference on
Diabetes and Endocrinology
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Journal of Insights in Nutrition and Metabolism | Volume 2
Novel health mobile technology as an emerging strategy in diabetes management
Satish Kumar David
King Saudi University, Saudi Arabia
D
iabetes is a chronic disease that needs patient
awareness, education, and self-management of the
disease by patients. Mobile revolution and the availability of
IT technologies can serve as a connecting bridge in health care
system to facilitate the treatment of lifestyles diseases such
as diabetes. However, the effectiveness of these techniques
needs to be assessed rigorously. Therefore, the authors have
systematically reviewed the recent clinical studies using
Mobile Health applications for diabetes management.
Original articles that were published in ISI indexed journals
from PubMed database from 2007 to 2014 were collected
using search specific key phrases. Selected papers were
classified into ‘mobile applications for diabetesmanagement’
which includedapplications related todiabetesmanagement,
‘mobile applications for patient education’ which included
all the articles where smart phone was used as a tool for
health education and ‘mobile applications for patient
behavior modifications’ which included studies that looked
into mobile applications which would affect and contribute
to behavior changes.
Mobile health interventions resulted in significant clinical
improvement in most of the studies. Educational SMS
produced significant results but was inferior to the apps or
teleconsultations which are more engaging with patients.
It seems phone calls are less preferred, as there were only
two studies where phone calls were used as intervention.
Most of Smartphone apps were evaluated for patient
management and education. Implementing reliable mobile
health platform in real-life setups may be a challenging
task and would require adequate infrastructure. Cost
benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis are essential before
implementation of such systems.
e:
skumar@ksu.edu.sa