Mobile Apps for the Management of Diabetes

Chavez, Sarah; Fedele, David A.; Guo, Yi; Bernier, Angelina; Smith, Megan; Warnick, Jennifer; Modave, François

doi:10.2337/dc17-0853

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“…Frameworks should be in place to control the quality of apps used for chronic disease management. The reliability of the educational content or advice given by the app is of paramount importance, as such information can potentially elicit behavioural change . For example, diabetes apps can be checked for the advice given on acute complications surrounding blood glucose fluctuations, and the prevention and management of complications and multimorbidities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Clinical relevance of smartphone apps for diabetes management: A global overview

Huang

Soljak

Boehm

et al. 2018

Diabetes Metabolism Res

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Clinical relevance of smartphone apps for diabetes management: A global overview

Huang

Soljak

Boehm

et al. 2018

Diabetes Metabolism Res

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“…The dramatic increase in mobile phone use worldwide, from 1 billion subscribers in 2002 to 6 billion in 2012 (86% of the world’s population), made mHealth one of the most attractive areas of public health intervention for WHO, even though evidence of effectiveness has not yet been proven 9. One-way push mobile text messaging, where the receiver cannot respond, could be considered as the least advanced but the most widely used tool for mHealth 10.…”

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confidence: 99%

SMS-based intervention in type 2 diabetes: clinical trial in Senegal

Wargny¹,

Kleinebreil²,

Diop³

et al. 2018

BMJ Innov

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ObjectiveSince 2014 Senegal has benefited from regular awareness-raising Short Message Service (SMS) campaigns (Be He@lthy, Be Mobile initiative) directed at people who have signed up, for free, to the ‘mDiabète’ programme. We report on an evaluation of its impact on diabetes control.DesignThe clinical trial was designed to send daily SMS during 3 months to people with type 2 diabetes. Due to centre randomisation, SMS were sent from inclusion (M0) to month 3 (M3) to people in centre S and from M3 to month 6 (M6) to people in centre P.SettingMedical centre S in the northwestern suburbs of Dakar; centre P in Popenguine, 70 km south of Dakar.ParticipantsIn February 2017, people with type 2 diabetes were consecutively recruited in the two centres. Complete data were available from 186 of these people.Main outcome measuresHbA1c was measured in the two centres with the same assay throughout the study. The primary end point was the difference between centres for the change in HbA1c from M0 to M3. Secondary end points were the evolution of HbA1c in centres S and P between M3 and M6.ResultsThe HbA1c change from M0 to M3 in centre S was better than in centre P, with a median difference of −0.4%, quartiles (−1.0; 0.3) versus 0.2% (-0.5; 0.8), respectively (p=0.0038). HbA1c decreased over the 3 months after having stopped SMS in centre S and was confirmed in centre P. The campaign cost was €2.5 (US$3.1) per person.ConclusionsIn Senegal, SMS sending was associated with an improved glycaemic control in people with type 2 diabetes. As SMS has a high penetration in low-income, middle-income countries where medical resources are scarce, health interventions using mobile telephones should be developed to facilitate exchanges between people with diabetes and medical teams; this may reduce diabetes-related complications.

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“…In subsequent medical Q&A developments, diabetes mellitus, as one of the top three major worldwide causes of death from noncommunicable diseases, has prompted numerous researches investigating the prevention, prevalence, and mortality of diabetes mellitus [15,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]. There is a great demand for a Q&A system that can effectively and efficiently provide health consulting services and assist people in monitoring and managing their individual health conditions.…”

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“…Hence, there is an increasing demand to develop convenient and effective question-answering systems for the medical domain [21][22][23][24]. Moreover, there is a particularly growing demand of Q&A systems for effectively and efficiently assisting diabetes patients to better utilize ever-accumulating expert knowledge [1,7,15].…”

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“…As a convenient platform for checking users' health status on a real-time basis, mobile applications have been developed from information provision to lifestyle-oriented smart health management. Moreover, existing research presented that continuous real-time consulting and monitoring supported by smartphones is applicable for improving efficiency of diabetes self-management [7,[15][16][17]. Therefore, developing a mobile-based system for diabetes patients to assist in their health management is of great importance.…”

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A Mobile‐Based Question‐Answering and Early Warning System for Assisting Diabetes Management

Xie

Ding

Yan³

et al. 2018

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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With increasing demand for preventive management of chronic diseases in real time by using the Internet, interest in developing a convenient device on health management and monitoring has intensified. Unlike other chronic diseases, diabetes particularly type 2 is a lifelong chronic disease and usually requires daily health management by patients themselves. This study is to develop a mobilebased diabetes question-answering (Q&A) and early warning system named Dia-AID, assisting diabetes patients and populations at high risk. The Dia-AID system consists of three modules: a large-scale multilanguage diabetes frequently asked question repository, a multimode fusion Q&A framework, and a health data management module. A list of services including risk assessment and health early warning is provided to users for health condition monitoring. Using the diabetes frequently asked question repository as data, experiments are conducted on answer ranking and answer selection aspects. Results show that two essential methods in the system outperform baseline methods on both aspects.

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Mobile Apps for the Management of Diabetes

Cited by 96 publications

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Clinical relevance of smartphone apps for diabetes management: A global overview

Clinical relevance of smartphone apps for diabetes management: A global overview

SMS-based intervention in type 2 diabetes: clinical trial in Senegal

A Mobile‐Based Question‐Answering and Early Warning System for Assisting Diabetes Management

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