Ubiquitous Healthcare for Elderly Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes

Treatments: Device: SMBG group; Device: U-healthcare service

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01137058

SNUBH_UH1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Ubiquitous healthcare service for elderly patients with type 2 diabetes provides real-time glycemic monitoring and glucose control implemented by clinical decision support system (CDSS) using wire and wireless communication and information technology.

To evaluate the clinical efficacy of this system, researchers plan to compare the improvement of glycemic control, self-management, and quality of life among three study groups: control, self glucose monitoring, and U-healthcare group.

Full description

Recently, the application of internet-based glucose control system showed better long term glucose control compared to the conventional treatment. This study has become the foundation of web-based methodology in the glucose control. In addition, the combined application of mobile device and web-based monitoring system for chronic diseases showed improvement in various metabolic parameters in obese patients with diabetes and hypertension.

Thus, the application of U-healthcare based on advanced information technology would be helpful in the diabetes management. We plan to provide an individualized U-healthcare service using advanced information technology that enables more effective glucose control.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Type 2 diabetes
• age: 60 ~ 85 yrs
• HbA1c: 6.5%-11.0%
• duration of diabetes: less than 30 years
• BMI: 20-35

Exclusion criteria

• systemic corticosteroid administered within previous 6 months
• history of myocardial ischemia
• Heart failure, NYHA Class II-IV
• Thyroid disease with abnormal TFT
• Anti-obesity drugs or slimming products within previous 3 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 3 patient groups

U-healthcare

Experimental group

Description:

glucose meter and U-healthcare

Treatment:

Device: U-healthcare service

SMBG group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Diabetic patients who do self monitoring of blood glucose only were categorized into self monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) group.

Treatment:

Device: SMBG group

control

No Intervention group

Description:

conventional treatment