Why the study?
Cardiovascular risk factors are rapidly increasing in LMICs, prompting the need to understand facilitators and barriers to chronic disease management and the acceptability of mHealth interventions.
Population
Peer educators and people living with diabetes and/or hypertension in Cambodia (six focus groups, N=59, and 11 interviews)
Design
Exploratory qualitative study using semistructured interviews and focus groups
Authors
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May inform accessible mHealth design for diabetes and hypertension self-management; extends patient preference data to guide targeted interventions in future RCTs.
A qualitative study in Cambodia demonstrated that patients with diabetes and hypertension prefer dinnertime voice messages over text messages for chronic disease self-management support, informing the design of a subsequent mHealth RCT.
Steinman et al. (2019) studied this question.
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