RCT of SMS for Drivers With Pre-DM

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes; Pre-diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: Short Message Service (SMS)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01556880

HKCTR-560

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to prevent the professional drivers from pre-diabetes to diabetes.

Full description

Mobile phone use is almost a routine part of society worldwide. All mobile phones can deliver and receive short-messaging service text messages, providing a perfect medium for delivering information and support. Since short-messaging service is little exploited in clinical research or practice in Chinese population, this study examined the effectiveness of one-way messaging which is less expensive and is easier to undertake. We aimed to determine the effectiveness of using SMS to provide pre-diabetes and diabetes information by promoting healthy lifestyle modification and reducing the two-hour post-glucose loading plasma glucose, the risk of acquiring Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus among professional drivers with pre-diabetes.

Enrollment: 104 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• identified within the last 3 months with pre-diabetes which is defined as a fasting plasma glucose level of 5.6-6.9 mmol/L or a two-hour level after a 75 grams glucose load of 7.8-11 mmol/L based on the World Health Organization 1998 criteria;
• accessible by mobile phone that could receive Chinese text messages.

Exclusion criteria

• a history of diabetes mellitus;
• currently on medicines known to alter glucose tolerance;
• did not have a mobile phone;
• unable to read Chinese characters;
• refused to take part in current study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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104 participants in 2 patient groups

Short Message Service (SMS)

Experimental group

Description:

A computer-based text message database was created. Messages prompted subjects to get rid of smoking and eating out, to persevere with the quit smoking attempt with the emphasis on the peer pressure on the smoking cessation by the smoking ban in restaurants. They encouraged them to overcome the barriers of healthy eating diet and physical activity with a block of text messages.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Short Message Service (SMS)

Standard usual care

No Intervention group