The effect of community groups and mobile phone messages on the prevention and control of diabetes in rural Bangladesh: Study protocol for a three-arm cluster randomised controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Fottrell, Edward ^a   Jennings, Hannah ^a   Kuddus, Abdul ^b   Ahmed, Naveed ^b   Morrison, Joanna ^a   Akter, Kohenour ^b   Shaha, Sanjit Kumar ^b   Nahar, Badrun ^b   Nahar, Tasmin ^b   Haghparast Bidgoli, Hassan ^a   Khan, A K Azad ^b   Costello, Anthony ^a,c   Azad, Kishwar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Diabetic Association of Bangladesh   (Bangladesh)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cluster randomised trial; Community mobilisation; Diabetes; Intermediate hyperglycaemia; MHealth; Non communicable disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEXT MESSAGING; WAIST HIP RATIO; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; GROUP PROCESS; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT EDUCATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SELF CARE; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BANGLADESH; CELL PHONE; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SELF CARE; TELEMEDICINE; TEXT MESSAGING; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85006733584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-016-1738-x     Document Type: Article

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