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AIM: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the effect of the nurse's education using short message service of cellular phone varied according to the degree of the glycosylated haemoglobin at baseline with type 2 diabetes mellitus. BACKGROUND: Nurse's education using telemedicine has a decrease glycosylated haemoglobin level in type 2 diabetic patients. DESIGN: A control group pretest-post-test design was used to assess the effectiveness of nurse's education. METHODS: Fifty-one subjects completed the entire study, 25 interventions and 26 controls. Intervention and control groups were then separated into two groups by baseline-glycosylated haemoglobin, a baseline-glycosylated haemoglobin >or=7.0% and a baseline-glycosylated haemoglobin or=7.0% for the intervention group (p = 0.007), with a mean percentage change of -2.15%. The percentage change in the control group was, however, not significant; this time the mean percentage change was -0.22% after 12 weeks. CONCLUSION: These findings indicated that for patients with a baseline-glycosylated haemoglobin or=7.0% for the intervention group; however, no significant change for the control group after 12 weeks. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Short message service of cellular phone intervention by a nurse can maintain and reduce glycosylated haemoglobin in a baseline-glycosylated haemoglobin or=7.0% groups.
Hee‐Sung Kim (2007) studied this question.