Telemonitoring and Mobile Phone-Based Health Coaching Among Finnish Diabetic and Heart Disease Patients: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a strong will and need to find alternative models of health care delivery driven by the ever-increasing burden of chronic diseases.

Objective

The purpose of this 1-year trial was to study whether a structured mobile phone-based health coaching program, which was supported by a remote monitoring system, could be used to improve the health-related quality of life (HRQL) and/or the clinical measures of type 2 diabetes and heart disease patients.

Methods

A randomized controlled trial was conducted among type 2 diabetes patients and heart disease patients of the South Karelia Social and Health Care District. Patients were recruited by sending invitations to randomly selected patients using the electronic health records system. Health coaches called pati

SUBMITTER: Karhula T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4526947 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature