Diabetes Mellitus
Conditions
Interventions
For a period of 12 weeks, a diabetic patient and his caregiver communicate with a doctor or nurse through the TV terephone for 30 minutes once a week. Intercommunication content :Medical staff checks
Sponsors
Department of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Diabetic patients are informed of the nature and purpose of the study before giving their voluntary consent to participate in the study. We select a subject who has TV terephone communication system at his home as an intervention group. Age-, duration of the diabetes-, ADL-, blood glucose-, HbA1c-, matched control group carrys on being treated as an outpaint without TV telephone communication.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Not diabetes, Difficulty in speaking
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1 inspection data (height, weight, percent of body fat, blood glucose level, HbA1c, insulin concentration) 2 PAID (Problem Areas In Diabetes) 3 lifestyle questionnaire 4 TV telephone questionnaire | — |
Countries
Japan
Outcome results
None listed