Mobile health application based intervention for improvement of quality of life among newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients
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Abstract
Background. Diabetes and its complications arebecoming
a major threat to public health. Quality of life
among diabetes patients is not optimum.
Objective. To know the usefulness of the mobile health
application for improvement of QoL and diabetes selfmanagement
activities of the type 2 diabetes patients.
Methods. The present study was conducted in a tertiary
care hospital for 2 years from October 2016 to October
2018. In this study, 66 newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes
patients, educated, techno-friendly smart phone users,
aged between 18–60 years, were included. They
were allocated to intervention and control group by
block randomization method. Intervention group was
allotted to use the android application and control
group was allotted to use the website. The data were
imported and analyzed by SPSS v 20.
Results. Overall quality of life and general health was
70.26 ± 16.51; for physical health it was 59.52 ± 7.15,
for psychological it was 63.38 ± 9.2, for social relations
it was 74.87 ± 13.98 and for environment it was 71.87 ±
± 8.38. The score of overall quality of life was increased
in both control and intervention group during follow-ups.
It was found that there was significant improvement in
glucose management, dietary control, physical activity,
health care use and sum score. Wilk’s lambda was significant
for HbA1c both in control and intervention group.
Conclusions. Mobile-based applications with focusing
on diabetes self-management education may support
to reduce the complications of diabetes and improve
the QoL of diabetes patients.
Keywords: self-managementmhealth appdiabetes mellitus
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