NCT04243174

The Use of Short SMS Messaging With Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM)

The Use of Mobile Phone Messaging as a Behavioural Intervention to Increase Physical Activity in Adults With T2DM in Saudi Arabia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 57 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Nottingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Physical activity (PA) can play a vital and an independent role in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) management care. Health research studies have shown evidence that PA can improve glycaemic control and glucose levels. PA is first line of self-care management recommended to patients with T2DM and most patients fail to perform the regular PA. It is always important for health providers to find better methods in encouraging and incentivizing PA in T2DM patients. Mobile phone messaging-based interventions have been shown to strengthen the delivery of health information and self-care management programs.

Detailed description

Studies have employed this as a tool for promoting T2DM self-care management interventions such as physical activity, glucose monitoring, medication adherence and nutrition. Despite the increasing number of these interventions globally, the effectiveness of mobile phone messaging-based interventions in Saudi Arabia context remains inconclusive and inconsistent. There is limited research conducted in this region. Therefore, there is a need for more studies to show evidence to ascertain the effectiveness of using mobile phone messaging to promote PA in T2DM patients in the context of Saudi Arabia.

Conditions

• Type 2 Diabetes
• Physical Exercise

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SMS Messaging	Patients with type 2 diabetes will be recruited and will start receiving short SMS messages about physical activity, encouraging them to be more active and help them to build a healthy life style routine.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-23
• Primary completion: 2020-03-01
• Completion: 2020-03-30
• First posted: 2020-01-28
• Last updated: 2021-08-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Saudi Arabia