Mobile Phone Usage and Willingness to Use Mobile Phones to Support Medication Adherence and Receive Text Message Appointment Reminders in Older Outpatients With Type 2 Diabetes
Authors' conclusion
Our study would suggest that there is potential value in using mobile phone to improve the management of diabetes in community living older people but this alone cannot be relied upon.
Study context
- Population
- Outpatients aged ≥60 years managed and treated for T2D, Dong Da General Hospital; mean age 73.2 (SD 8.3) years
- Participants
- 584 outpatients
- Outcome
- Willingness to use mobile phones to support medication adherence and to receive text message appointment reminders, and associated factors
Methodological detailssingle-centre outpatient department
- Single-centre outpatient department
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Factors associated with willingness to use phones to support medication adherence (multilevel logistic regression)
Odds ratio (95% CI)
College, university, or higher level
2.35(1.10–4.99)
Current smoking
5.40(1.01–28.94)
Basic phone
2.47(1.42–4.30)
Smartphone
17.93(8.81–36.47)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Factors associated with willingness to receive appointment reminders via mobile phone (multilevel logistic regression)
| OR (95% CI) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Basic phone | 2.79 (1.70–4.59) | |
| Smartphone | 9.61 (4.61–19.99) | |
| HbA1c < 7.5 | 0.65 (0.43–0.99) | |
| 0.050.21520Odds ratio (log scale) |
Patient characteristics
- Medium or high treatment adherence
- ≈80%
- HbA1c < 7.5%
- 52.4%
Original publication
Mobile Phone Usage and Willingness to Use Mobile Phones to Support Medication Adherence and Receive Text Message Appointment Reminders in Older Outpatients With Type 2 Diabetes. J Diabetes Sci Technol. Published 31 January 2025. doi:10.
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