Mobile Phone Diabetes Self-Management Support: a multi-country analysis of its implementation in existing Diabetes Self-Management Education Programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cambodia and the Philippines (LT10-341)

Main Institution:

Institute of Tropical Medicine (Belgium)

Other Institutions:

Memisa (Democratic Republic of Congo); MoPoTsyo (Cambodia); Veterans Memorial Medical Center (Philippines)

Principal Investigators:

G.Kegels; J.C Kalobu; M.van Pelt; G.M Ku

Other investigators:

W.Van Damme; K.Van Acker; J.van Olmen; B.Villaraza; D.Dubourg

Locations of the project:

Kinshasa (DRC); Takeo, Banteay, Meanchey, Kompong Speu and Kompong Thom (Cambodia); Quezon City, City of Batac, Pagudpud (Philippines)

Amount allocated:

USD 380,265

Date:

October 1, 2011 - October 1, 2014

Objectives:

This project examines if the use of mobile phone communication between people with diabetes and their health care givers improves existing diabetes self-management programmes in Congo, Cambodia and the Philippines. Mobile phones will be given to people to enable them to call for support. They will receive messages and calls about behaviour change and results and reminders to appointments and taking of medication. The effects of the intervention on health outcomes, access to treatment and enablement of people living with diabetes will be evaluated for each country and the differences in effect between countries will be analysed. 

BRIDGES (Bringing Research in Diabetes to Global Environments and Systems) is a programme initiated by the International Diabetes Federation, and supported by an educational grant from Lilly Diabetes.