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Trial reportBMC health services research2020

The influence of mobile phone-based health reminders on patient adherence to medications and healthy lifestyle recommendations for effective management of diabetes type 2: a randomized control trial in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Farzana Yasmin, Nazmun Nahar, Bilkis Banu, Liaquat Ali, Rainer Sauerborn, Aurélia Souares

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Trial report in BMC health services research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Farzana YasminHeidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany. farzana.yasmin@uni-wh.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6006-1997
Nazmun NaharIndependent Consultant, Marburg, Germany.
Bilkis BanuHeidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Liaquat AliPothikrit Institute of Health Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Rainer SauerbornHeidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Aurélia SouaresHeidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Heidelberg University · DEBangladesh Institute of Development Studies · BDWitten/Herdecke University · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIn 2017, 80% of 425 million adults with diabetes worldwide were living in low and middle-income countries. Diabetes affected 6.9 million adults in Bangladesh and accounted for 3% of the country's total mortality. Proper management of diabetes is the key to positive health outcomes. This study investigated how mobile phone-based health intervention could increase patient adherence and thereby improve the disease outcomes for diabetes type 2 in Bangladesh.

methodsA mobile phone-based health project (including mobile phone reminders and 24/7 call center) was implemented in Dhaka District, Bangladesh from January to December 2014. A randomized control trial was carried out, recruiting randomly in intervention and control groups among the patients receiving treatment for type 2 diabetes at the Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. A total of 320 patients from both groups at baseline and 273 at endline were interviewed.

resultsA significant improvement in patient adherence to diet, physical exercise, the cessation of use of tobacco and betel nut, and blood glycaemic control was found in the intervention group, whereas no such significant improvement was found in the control group. Cost and other co-morbidities were found to be the main reasons for non-adherence.

conclusionA mobile-health intervention should be considered as an additional option for non-communicable disease programs.

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Cell PhoneReminder SystemsTelemedicineAdultAgedAged, 80 and overBangladeshDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Drug MonitoringFemaleHealthy LifestyleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPatient ComplianceAdherenceBangladeshCall centerDiabetes type 2Health outcomesInteractive voice callMobile health

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