Telehealth interventions to reduce management complications in type 1 diabetes: A review.

ABSTRACT: Type 1 diabetes is a chronic illness with a high burden of care. While effective interventions and recommendations for diabetes care exist, the intensive nature of diabetes management makes compliance difficult. This is especially true in children and adolescents as they have unique psychosocial and diabetes needs. Despite the development of effective in-person interventions targeting improving self-management and ameliorating psychosocial difficulties there are still a number of barriers to implementing these interventions, namely time, cost, and access. Telehealth interventions allow for the dissemination of these interventions to a broader audience. Self-management and psychosocial telehealth interventions are reviewed with a special emphasis on mobile phone and internet based technolog

SUBMITTER: Balkhi AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4398894 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature