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Background: Due to spread of smart phones, opportunity to train patients with diabetes and communicate with them using social media is rising. Aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of training through two popular social networks in Iran (“Telegram” and “Soroush”) and the metabolic control of people with Type 2 diabetes.
Methods: In this randomized controlled trial, we recruited 134 patients with type 2 diabetes, which randomly allocated into two groups: the intervention and the control group on a 1:1 basis. The intervention comprised a training package that delivered to the intervention group via social media for 45 days. The primary outcome measures included awareness of diabetes management and physical activity level while secondary outcome measures were HbA1c and lipid profile.
Results: Social network training led to the increase of the patients' awareness (44.31±2.78 to 46.88±2.25 in intervention group vs. 44.14±3.85 to 44.41±3.87 in control group) and physical activities level (23.64±8.46 to 31.68±7.12 in intervention group vs. 26.20±9.39 to 30.20±8.11 in control group) (p-value<0.001). Besides, LDL and HDL levels, and HbA1c (8.19±2.10 to 8.05±1.96 in intervention group vs. 7.53±1.67 to 7.45±1.34 in control group) decreased significantly (p-value<0.05).
Conclusions: Changes in lifestyle and challenges of the patients' attendance in diabetes training sessions, declared that use of social networkscan be useful to train diabetes patients remotely, and it is feasible to send training messages to help them improve their diabetes care.
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