Authors: Alessio Fioravanti Giuseppe Fico Dario Salvi Rebeca I GarcíaBetances Maria Teresa Arredondo
Publish Date: 2015/01/07
Volume: 53, Issue: 12, Pages: 1285-1294
Abstract
Mobile health systems aiming to promote adherence may costeffectively improve the selfmanagement of chronic diseases like diabetes enhancing the compliance to the medical prescription encouraging and stimulating patients to adopt healthy life styles and promoting empowerment This paper presents a strategy for mhealth applications in diabetes selfmanagement that is based on automatic generation of feedback messages A feedback assistant representing the core of architecture delivers dynamic and automatically updated text messages set up on clinical guideline and patient’s lifestyle Based on this strategy an mhealth adherence system was designed developed and tested in a smallscale exploratory study with T1DM and T2DM patients The results indicate that the system could be feasible and well accepted and that its usage increased along with adherence to prescriptions during the 4 weeks of the study A more extensive research is pending to corroborate these outcomes and to establish a clear benefit of the proposed solutionThe authors acknowledge the METABO consortium for their valuable contributions to this work This project is partially funded by the European Commission Contract No 216270 under the 7th Framework Program Theme ICT200751 personal health systems for monitoring and pointofcare diagnostics—personalized monitoring
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