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S A Greene - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a randomized controlled trial of sweet talk a text Messaging System to support young people with diabetes
Diabetic Medicine, 2006Co-Authors: Victoria Louise Franklin, Annalu Waller, Claudia Pagliari, S A GreeneAbstract:Aims To assess Sweet Talk, a text-Messaging support System designed to enhance self-efficacy, facilitate uptake of intensive insulin therapy and improve glycaemic control in paediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes. Methods One hundred and twenty-six patients fulfilled the eligibility criteria; Type 1 diabetes for > 1 year, on conventional insulin therapy, aged 8–18 years. Ninety-two patients were randomized to conventional insulin therapy ( n = 28), conventional therapy and Sweet Talk ( n = 33) or intensive insulin therapy and Sweet Talk ( n = 31). Goal-setting at clinic visits was reinforced by daily text-messages from the Sweet Talk software System, containing personalized goal-specific prompts and messages tailored to patients’ age, sex and insulin regimen. Results HbA 1c did not change in patients on conventional therapy without or with Sweet Talk (10.3 ± 1.7 vs. 10.1 ± 1.7%), but improved in patients randomized to intensive therapy and Sweet Talk (9.2 ± 2.2%, 95% CI − 1.9, − 0.5, P < 0.001). Sweet Talk was associated with improvement in diabetes self-efficacy (conventional therapy 56.0 ± 13.7, conventional therapy plus Sweet Talk 62.1 ± 6.6, 95% CI +2.6, +7.5, P = 0.003) and self-reported adherence (conventional therapy 70.4 ± 20.0, conventional therapy plus Sweet Talk 77.2 ± 16.1, 95% CI +0.4, +17.4, P = 0.042). When surveyed, 82% of patients felt that Sweet Talk had improved their diabetes self-management and 90% wanted to continue receiving messages. Conclusions Sweet Talk was associated with improved self-efficacy and adherence; engaging a classically difficult to reach group of young people. While Sweet Talk alone did not improve glycaemic control, it may have had a role in supporting the introduction of intensive insulin therapy. Scheduled, tailored text Messaging offers an innovative means of supporting adolescents with diabetes and could be adapted for other health-care settings and chronic diseases. Diabet. Med. 23, 1332–1338 (2006)
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sweet talk text Messaging support for intensive insulin therapy for young people with diabetes
Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 2003Co-Authors: Victoria Louise Franklin, Annalu Waller, Claudia Pagliari, S A GreeneAbstract:Optimal diabetes management involves considerable behavioural modification, while nonadherence contributes significantly to poor glycaemia. Extensive research on psychological interventions aiming to improve glycaemia suggests that current strategies are costly and time-consuming and in our experience do not appeal to young people with Type 1 diabetes. Text Messaging has rapidly become a socially popular form of communication. It is personal, highly transportable, and widely used, particularly in the adolescent population. However, text Messaging coupled with specific behavioural health strategies has yet to be utilised effectively. We have developed a novel support network ("Sweet Talk"), based on a unique text-Messaging System designed to deliver individually targeted messages and general diabetes information. Individualised motivation strategies—based on social cognition theory, the health belief model, and goal setting—form the theoretical basis of the message content. Intensifying insulin therapy and...
Victoria Louise Franklin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a randomized controlled trial of sweet talk a text Messaging System to support young people with diabetes
Diabetic Medicine, 2006Co-Authors: Victoria Louise Franklin, Annalu Waller, Claudia Pagliari, S A GreeneAbstract:Aims To assess Sweet Talk, a text-Messaging support System designed to enhance self-efficacy, facilitate uptake of intensive insulin therapy and improve glycaemic control in paediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes. Methods One hundred and twenty-six patients fulfilled the eligibility criteria; Type 1 diabetes for > 1 year, on conventional insulin therapy, aged 8–18 years. Ninety-two patients were randomized to conventional insulin therapy ( n = 28), conventional therapy and Sweet Talk ( n = 33) or intensive insulin therapy and Sweet Talk ( n = 31). Goal-setting at clinic visits was reinforced by daily text-messages from the Sweet Talk software System, containing personalized goal-specific prompts and messages tailored to patients’ age, sex and insulin regimen. Results HbA 1c did not change in patients on conventional therapy without or with Sweet Talk (10.3 ± 1.7 vs. 10.1 ± 1.7%), but improved in patients randomized to intensive therapy and Sweet Talk (9.2 ± 2.2%, 95% CI − 1.9, − 0.5, P < 0.001). Sweet Talk was associated with improvement in diabetes self-efficacy (conventional therapy 56.0 ± 13.7, conventional therapy plus Sweet Talk 62.1 ± 6.6, 95% CI +2.6, +7.5, P = 0.003) and self-reported adherence (conventional therapy 70.4 ± 20.0, conventional therapy plus Sweet Talk 77.2 ± 16.1, 95% CI +0.4, +17.4, P = 0.042). When surveyed, 82% of patients felt that Sweet Talk had improved their diabetes self-management and 90% wanted to continue receiving messages. Conclusions Sweet Talk was associated with improved self-efficacy and adherence; engaging a classically difficult to reach group of young people. While Sweet Talk alone did not improve glycaemic control, it may have had a role in supporting the introduction of intensive insulin therapy. Scheduled, tailored text Messaging offers an innovative means of supporting adolescents with diabetes and could be adapted for other health-care settings and chronic diseases. Diabet. Med. 23, 1332–1338 (2006)
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sweet talk text Messaging support for intensive insulin therapy for young people with diabetes
Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 2003Co-Authors: Victoria Louise Franklin, Annalu Waller, Claudia Pagliari, S A GreeneAbstract:Optimal diabetes management involves considerable behavioural modification, while nonadherence contributes significantly to poor glycaemia. Extensive research on psychological interventions aiming to improve glycaemia suggests that current strategies are costly and time-consuming and in our experience do not appeal to young people with Type 1 diabetes. Text Messaging has rapidly become a socially popular form of communication. It is personal, highly transportable, and widely used, particularly in the adolescent population. However, text Messaging coupled with specific behavioural health strategies has yet to be utilised effectively. We have developed a novel support network ("Sweet Talk"), based on a unique text-Messaging System designed to deliver individually targeted messages and general diabetes information. Individualised motivation strategies—based on social cognition theory, the health belief model, and goal setting—form the theoretical basis of the message content. Intensifying insulin therapy and...
Thomas F La Porta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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teamphone networking smartphones for disaster recovery
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2017Co-Authors: Guohong Cao, Thomas F La PortaAbstract:In this paper, we investigate how to network smartphones for providing communications in disaster recovery. By bridging the gaps among different kinds of wireless networks, we have designed and implemented a System called TeamPhone, which provides smartphones the capabilities of communications in disaster recovery. Specifically, TeamPhone consists of two components: A Messaging System and a self-rescue System. The Messaging System integrates cellular networking, ad-hoc networking, and opportunistic networking seamlessly, and enables communications among rescue workers. The self-rescue System groups, schedules, and positions the smartphones of trapped survivors. Such a group of smartphones can cooperatively wake up and send out emergency messages in an energy-efficient manner with their location and position information so as to assist rescue operations. We have implemented TeamPhone as a prototype application on the Android platform and deployed it on off-the-shelf smartphones. Experimental results demonstrate that TeamPhone can properly fulfill communication requirements and greatly facilitate rescue operations in disaster recovery.
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networking smartphones for disaster recovery
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2016Co-Authors: Guohong Cao, Thomas F La PortaAbstract:In this paper, we investigate how to network smart-phones for providing communications in disaster recovery. By bridging the gaps among different kinds of wireless networks, we have designed and implemented a System called TeamPhone, which provides smartphones the capabilities of communications in disaster recovery. Specifically, TeamPhone consists of two components: a Messaging System and a self-rescue System. The Messaging System integrates cellular networking, ad-hoc networking and opportunistic networking seamlessly, and enables communications among rescue workers. The self-rescue System energy-efficiently groups the smartphones of trapped survivor and sends out emergency messages so as to assist rescue operations. We have implemented TeamPhone as a prototype application on the Android platform and deployed it on off-the-shelf smartphones. Experiment results show that TeamPhone can properly fulfill communication requirements and greatly facilitate rescue operations in disaster recovery.
Annalu Waller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a randomized controlled trial of sweet talk a text Messaging System to support young people with diabetes
Diabetic Medicine, 2006Co-Authors: Victoria Louise Franklin, Annalu Waller, Claudia Pagliari, S A GreeneAbstract:Aims To assess Sweet Talk, a text-Messaging support System designed to enhance self-efficacy, facilitate uptake of intensive insulin therapy and improve glycaemic control in paediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes. Methods One hundred and twenty-six patients fulfilled the eligibility criteria; Type 1 diabetes for > 1 year, on conventional insulin therapy, aged 8–18 years. Ninety-two patients were randomized to conventional insulin therapy ( n = 28), conventional therapy and Sweet Talk ( n = 33) or intensive insulin therapy and Sweet Talk ( n = 31). Goal-setting at clinic visits was reinforced by daily text-messages from the Sweet Talk software System, containing personalized goal-specific prompts and messages tailored to patients’ age, sex and insulin regimen. Results HbA 1c did not change in patients on conventional therapy without or with Sweet Talk (10.3 ± 1.7 vs. 10.1 ± 1.7%), but improved in patients randomized to intensive therapy and Sweet Talk (9.2 ± 2.2%, 95% CI − 1.9, − 0.5, P < 0.001). Sweet Talk was associated with improvement in diabetes self-efficacy (conventional therapy 56.0 ± 13.7, conventional therapy plus Sweet Talk 62.1 ± 6.6, 95% CI +2.6, +7.5, P = 0.003) and self-reported adherence (conventional therapy 70.4 ± 20.0, conventional therapy plus Sweet Talk 77.2 ± 16.1, 95% CI +0.4, +17.4, P = 0.042). When surveyed, 82% of patients felt that Sweet Talk had improved their diabetes self-management and 90% wanted to continue receiving messages. Conclusions Sweet Talk was associated with improved self-efficacy and adherence; engaging a classically difficult to reach group of young people. While Sweet Talk alone did not improve glycaemic control, it may have had a role in supporting the introduction of intensive insulin therapy. Scheduled, tailored text Messaging offers an innovative means of supporting adolescents with diabetes and could be adapted for other health-care settings and chronic diseases. Diabet. Med. 23, 1332–1338 (2006)
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sweet talk text Messaging support for intensive insulin therapy for young people with diabetes
Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 2003Co-Authors: Victoria Louise Franklin, Annalu Waller, Claudia Pagliari, S A GreeneAbstract:Optimal diabetes management involves considerable behavioural modification, while nonadherence contributes significantly to poor glycaemia. Extensive research on psychological interventions aiming to improve glycaemia suggests that current strategies are costly and time-consuming and in our experience do not appeal to young people with Type 1 diabetes. Text Messaging has rapidly become a socially popular form of communication. It is personal, highly transportable, and widely used, particularly in the adolescent population. However, text Messaging coupled with specific behavioural health strategies has yet to be utilised effectively. We have developed a novel support network ("Sweet Talk"), based on a unique text-Messaging System designed to deliver individually targeted messages and general diabetes information. Individualised motivation strategies—based on social cognition theory, the health belief model, and goal setting—form the theoretical basis of the message content. Intensifying insulin therapy and...
Claudia Pagliari - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a randomized controlled trial of sweet talk a text Messaging System to support young people with diabetes
Diabetic Medicine, 2006Co-Authors: Victoria Louise Franklin, Annalu Waller, Claudia Pagliari, S A GreeneAbstract:Aims To assess Sweet Talk, a text-Messaging support System designed to enhance self-efficacy, facilitate uptake of intensive insulin therapy and improve glycaemic control in paediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes. Methods One hundred and twenty-six patients fulfilled the eligibility criteria; Type 1 diabetes for > 1 year, on conventional insulin therapy, aged 8–18 years. Ninety-two patients were randomized to conventional insulin therapy ( n = 28), conventional therapy and Sweet Talk ( n = 33) or intensive insulin therapy and Sweet Talk ( n = 31). Goal-setting at clinic visits was reinforced by daily text-messages from the Sweet Talk software System, containing personalized goal-specific prompts and messages tailored to patients’ age, sex and insulin regimen. Results HbA 1c did not change in patients on conventional therapy without or with Sweet Talk (10.3 ± 1.7 vs. 10.1 ± 1.7%), but improved in patients randomized to intensive therapy and Sweet Talk (9.2 ± 2.2%, 95% CI − 1.9, − 0.5, P < 0.001). Sweet Talk was associated with improvement in diabetes self-efficacy (conventional therapy 56.0 ± 13.7, conventional therapy plus Sweet Talk 62.1 ± 6.6, 95% CI +2.6, +7.5, P = 0.003) and self-reported adherence (conventional therapy 70.4 ± 20.0, conventional therapy plus Sweet Talk 77.2 ± 16.1, 95% CI +0.4, +17.4, P = 0.042). When surveyed, 82% of patients felt that Sweet Talk had improved their diabetes self-management and 90% wanted to continue receiving messages. Conclusions Sweet Talk was associated with improved self-efficacy and adherence; engaging a classically difficult to reach group of young people. While Sweet Talk alone did not improve glycaemic control, it may have had a role in supporting the introduction of intensive insulin therapy. Scheduled, tailored text Messaging offers an innovative means of supporting adolescents with diabetes and could be adapted for other health-care settings and chronic diseases. Diabet. Med. 23, 1332–1338 (2006)
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sweet talk text Messaging support for intensive insulin therapy for young people with diabetes
Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 2003Co-Authors: Victoria Louise Franklin, Annalu Waller, Claudia Pagliari, S A GreeneAbstract:Optimal diabetes management involves considerable behavioural modification, while nonadherence contributes significantly to poor glycaemia. Extensive research on psychological interventions aiming to improve glycaemia suggests that current strategies are costly and time-consuming and in our experience do not appeal to young people with Type 1 diabetes. Text Messaging has rapidly become a socially popular form of communication. It is personal, highly transportable, and widely used, particularly in the adolescent population. However, text Messaging coupled with specific behavioural health strategies has yet to be utilised effectively. We have developed a novel support network ("Sweet Talk"), based on a unique text-Messaging System designed to deliver individually targeted messages and general diabetes information. Individualised motivation strategies—based on social cognition theory, the health belief model, and goal setting—form the theoretical basis of the message content. Intensifying insulin therapy and...
