Text messaging to engage friends/family in diabetes self-management support: acceptability and potential to address disparities.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Explore acceptability of engaging family/friends in patients' type 2 diabetes (T2D) self-management using text messaging.

Materials and methods

Participants (N = 123) recruited from primary care clinics for a larger trial evaluating mobile phone support for T2D completed self-report measures and a hemoglobin A1c test and then had the option to invite an adult support person to receive text messages. We examined characteristics and reasons of participants who did/did not invite a support person, responses to the invitation, and feedback from patients and support persons.

Results

Participants were 55.9 ± 10.1 years old, 55% female, 53% minority, and 54% disadvantaged (low income, less than high school degree/GED, uninsured, and/or homeless). Participants who i

SUBMITTER: Mayberry LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6748809 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature