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‘Texting million people in India improves diabetes prevention’
- Updated: August 10, 2016
Washington: One million people in India who perceived content messages twice a week advising them to exercise, eat reduction fat, and devour some-more fruits and vegetables increasing these health behaviours that prevented diabetes, a new investigate has found.
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The bid by researchers from Northwestern University in a US and Arogya World, a tellurian health non-profit organization is a initial to use a energy and strech of mobile phones to change diabetes risk behaviours in a immeasurable series of people from opposite tools of a immeasurable nation like India. It has implications for diabetes impediment in low and middle-income countries.
In India, a diabetes weight is really high. An estimated 66 million people live with a disease, and 1 million die from it any year, researchers said.
Indian Americans also are tough strike with diabetes. The diabetes superiority in this race is 4 times aloft than among Caucasians in a US, they said.
Researchers compared combination scores of a initial group’s fruit, unfeeling and fat intake and practice with a control group.
While people in both a initial and control organisation softened their health behaviours over 6 months, a initial organisation softened significantly more.
Almost 40 per cent some-more people softened their health behaviours as a outcome of a texting (299 display alleviation in a initial organisation contra 185 in a control group).
“Noncommunicable diseases, one of a heading health and growth hurdles of a century, direct simple, proven, cost-effective impediment solutions that can be simply deployed during a race level,” pronounced Nalini Saligram, owner and CEO of Arogya World.
“Our investigate suggests mobile health record is a intelligent resolution and has extended implications for diabetes impediment during a race turn in low and middle-income countries,” pronounced Saligram.
“This shows a intensity for even a many simple of mobile phones to be used as a viable apparatus to broach open health messages on a immeasurable scale opposite a different population,” Angela Fidler Pfammatter, investigate partner highbrow during Northwestern University.
“And we only need a simple mobile phone. This can make an impact,” pronounced Pfammatter.
The investigate collected responses from scarcely 1,000 people who perceived content messages as partial of Arogya World’s mDiabetes beginning and compared them to responses from a identical series of people who did not accept a content messages.
The incidentally selected 1,000 individuals, who were surveyed by phone in a denunciation of their choice, were deliberate a deputy representation of a one million participants.
The investigate scored for fruit, unfeeling and fat expenditure as good as practice in participants during baseline and 6 months. There were 943 people in a control group, 982 in a initial one.
The commentary were published in a Journal of Medical and Internet Research.