Adherence
A multi-component digital health intervention (phone consultations, pedometers, and a smart app) combined with behavior change techniques effectively promotes physical activity and healthy diet in overweight/obese adults with type 2 diabetes compared to usual care.
If you have type 2 diabetes and are overweight, standard advice might not be enough. This study tests a program that uses phone calls, a pedometer, and a smartphone app to help you move more and eat better. It works by setting specific goals, identifying barriers, and getting support from health coaches and peers. To try this, you need to be willing to use a smartphone and commit to regular check-ins.
We expect that a multi component intervention including phone consultations, use of pedometers and a smart phone application are effective in behavior change to promoting PA and healthy diet among patient with T2D in primary care compared with usual care.
Why this rating
This is a study protocol; results are not yet available, so the evidence for efficacy is currently non-existent (pre-registration only).
Source
Study protocol: behaviour change intervention to promote healthy diet and physical activity in overweight/obese adults with diabetes attending health care facilities in Muscat: a cluster rendomised control trial
Thamra Al Ghafri et al. · BMC Public Health · 2021
DOI 10.1186/s12889-021-11549-3
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