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Use of Low-cost mHealth Intervention to Enhance Outcomes of Noncommunicable Diseases Care in Rural and Refugee Settings

NCT03580330 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2359

Last updated 2018-07-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Rural areas and refugee camps are characterized by poor access of patients to needed noncommunicable disease (NCD)-related health services, including diabetes and hypertension. This community trial study aims to assess the effect of employing low-cost mHealth tools on the accessibility to health services and improvement of health indicators of individuals with NCDs in rural areas and refugee camps in Lebanon.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

mHealth intervention

Individual in the intervention group receive a weekly educational health SMS for the intervention period of 1 year. SMS content covered different health themes providing health information on lifestyle, dietary habits, body weight, smoking, medications, importance of compliance, as well as symptoms and self-management of HTN and diabetes. Community individuals who were diagnosed and were receiving necessary care previous to the investigator's intervention were sent weekly informative health SMS, as well as customized SMSs reminders to follow up on their scheduled medical appointments (eg, to check their HbA1c levels and have their annual foot or eye exams).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • International Development Research Centre, Canada

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), Lebanon

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • American University of Beirut Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-04-17
Primary Completion
2018-04-01
Completion
2018-04-01

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