Development of a user centered mobile phone diabetes self-management intervention for people with type-2 diabetes in the ho municipality of Ghana
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Self-management remains a key goal for people living with Type-2 diabetes but globally has
been an ongoing challenge. The inefficiencies of traditional health education approaches to
diabetes care, concerns about the skills deficit and the technological explosion of mobile
phone use have provided an opportunity for technologically driven innovations to facilitate selfmanagement
of diabetes. Mobile phones are emerging as a tool for healthcare delivery and
access to mobile phones is on the increase in the Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
The related low cost of mobile technology, especially text and voice messaging, has been
reported to offer effective options for managing non-communicable diseases and highlighted
the need to test this in the self-management of Type-2 diabetes.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
Keywords
Diabetes, Mobile phones, Type-2 diabetes, Patients, Nursing