Effects of Telephone-Based Peer Support in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Receiving Integrated Care

Chan, Juliana C.N.; Sui, Yi; Oldenburg, Brian; Zhang, Yuying; Chung, Harriet; Goggins, William B.; Au, Shimen; Brown, Nicola; Ozaki, Risa; Ma, Rong; Ko, G. T. C.; Fisher, Edwin B.

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.655

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“…This left a total of 35 articles included in the review. There were 15 (43%) descriptive or observational studies (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27), 4 (11%) design or development studies (28-31), 3 (9%) quasi-experimental studies (2,32,33), 7 (20%) randomized controlled trials (34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40), and 6 (17%) qualitative studies (41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46) included in the review.…”

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“…Connection is related to improved glycemic control (34), improved depression and quality of life (35), and reductions in HbA1C (31,36,38). In general connection is correlated with self-care activities in adolescents (30), improves weight loss through a telephone intervention (37), and is experienced when a family member remains vigilant (43).…”

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“…Several studies demonstrated a positive impact on glycemic control with the use of technology to support patients in selfmanagement; Turner and Rotheram-Borus (2,49) used supportive messages delivered by text messages, Chan et al (36) used a telephone-based peer support system, Chomutare et al (31) tested a social-media app on a smart phone, a specialized app helped adolescents in Canada to increase the number of daily blood glucose readings. Other related outcome variables also showed positive movement; Eakin's (37) participants achieved weight loss and increased physical activity with a telephone-delivered program and Fukuoka's (42) participants achieved weight loss, reductions in hip circumference, blood pressure and total cholesterol with a web-based program that was combined with in-person and telephone support.…”

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Connected health: a review of the literature

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2016

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In 1998, a brave cardiologist named Dean Ornish published a book called Love and Survival with a straightforward hypothesis and went on to defend, with scientific evidence, the notion that "love and intimacy are among the most powerful factors in health and illness" (1). He boldly declared, "I am not aware of any other factor in medicine-not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgerythat has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness, and premature death from all causes." In the nearly two decades since his seminal work was made available for the general public, patients and researchers alike have focused on the knowledge that the people we surround ourselves with, providing support and being supported, matters deeply to our health and well-being. This field of inquiry has firmly established the criticality of social relationships for sustaining and improving health (2) and associated the lack of social integration with specific conditions such as cardiovascular disease, depression, cancer, infection, and mortality (3). Newer analytical techniques such as social network analysis are helping a fresh generation of researchers explore patterns of social connectedness through innovative procedures and algorithms that further expand our understanding.For the purpose of this review, social support is defined as researchers to achieve connection, and to assess the state of the science in this area. We hypothesized that being connected to someone who cares is good for your health. We believe this holds true even when connection is accomplished with mobile technologies. Thirty five studies were included in this review, 21utilized technology to enhance patient-provider connection. The articles included in this review were from a total of more than nine countries and took place in hospital, physician office, and community settings.They represented people from childhood through to old age. Technologies evaluated include: telephone interventions, email, text messaging, interactive voice response (IVR), video blogs, apps, websites, and social media. There were multiple operational definitions of social support and self-management used as variables within the studies. Findings from this review suggest that being connected does matter to patients with diabetes, and being connected to family matters the most, even though the associations are complex and not always predictable. Furthermore, patients with diabetes will utilize a variety of technologies to connect with healthcare providers, team members, and even other people with the same disease. The use of technology with diabetes patients positively impacts a variety of health outcomes, such as HbA1c, weight, physical activity, healthy eating, cholesterol and frequency of glycemic monitoring.

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Connected health: a review of the literature

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2016

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“…A recent study demonstrated that a peer coaching intervention designed to help diabetic patients with self-management to achieve glycemic control also substantially reduced hospital use in patients with depressive symptoms. 10 This intervention did not address hospitalization use, but effectively addressing the 'pivotal problem' through frequent supportive telephone contacts created unintended beneficial downstream consequences. Lack of stability in meeting core physiologic requirements such as food, water, or shelter are likely additional 'pivotal problems' that, if addressed, may prevent a host of unwanted downstream consequences.…”

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The Complexity of Complex Patients

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2015

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“…6 Peer support can improve diabetes management [7][8][9][10][11][12] but has not been adopted appreciably in China. An exception is a recent report of telephone peer support provided by a diabetes specialty service for patients of primary care physicians in Hong Kong.…”

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