Muralidharan Shruti, Ranjani Harish, Anjana Ranjit Mohan, Allender Steven, Mohan Viswanathan
Global Obesity Centre (GLOBE), World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront campus, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre and Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Indian J Endocrinol Metab. 2017 Mar-Apr;21(2):334-340. doi: 10.4103/ijem.IJEM_407_16.
Essential steps in diabetes prevention and management include translating research into the real world, improving access to health care, empowering the community, collaborative efforts involving physicians, diabetes educators, nurses, and public health scientists, and access to diabetes prevention and management efforts. Mobile phone technology has shown wide acceptance across various ages and socioeconomic groups and offers several opportunities in health care including self-management as well as prevention of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The future seems to lie in mobile health (mHealth) applications that can use embedded technology to showcase advanced uses of a smartphone to help with prevention and management of chronic disorders such as T2DM. This article presents a narrative review of the mHealth technologies used for the prevention and management of T2DM. Majority (48%) of the studies used short message service (SMS) technology as their intervention while some studies (29%) incorporated applications for medication reminders and insulin optimization for T2DM management. Few studies (23%) showed that, along with mHealth technology, health-care professionals' support resulted in added positive outcomes for the patients. This review highlights the fact that an mHealth intervention need not be restricted to SMS alone.
糖尿病预防与管理的关键步骤包括将研究成果应用于实际、改善医疗服务可及性、增强社区能力、医生、糖尿病教育工作者、护士和公共卫生科学家的协作努力以及开展糖尿病预防与管理工作。移动电话技术在各个年龄段和社会经济群体中都得到了广泛接受，并在医疗保健领域提供了诸多机会，包括自我管理以及2型糖尿病（T2DM）的预防。未来似乎在于移动健康（mHealth）应用程序，这些程序可以利用嵌入式技术展示智能手机的先进用途，以帮助预防和管理诸如T2DM等慢性疾病。本文对用于T2DM预防和管理的mHealth技术进行了叙述性综述。大多数研究（48%）使用短信服务（SMS）技术作为干预手段，而一些研究（29%）纳入了用于药物提醒和T2DM管理中胰岛素优化的应用程序。少数研究（23%）表明，除了mHealth技术外，医疗保健专业人员的支持也为患者带来了额外的积极结果。本综述强调了一个事实，即mHealth干预不必仅限于短信。
