تأثیر آموزش پیامکی بر آموزش خودمراقبتی بیماران دیابتی در چالش های جدید کنونی

عنوان انگليسی

The Effect of SMS Education on Self-Care Training in Diabetic Patients in Present New Challenges

خلاصه انگلیسی

Todays, disease prevention, health education, and self-care are important topics in promoting health in patients, especially in chronic disease such as diabetes (1). Patients with diabetes are more likely to develop infectious diseases such as Covid-19 due to acquired immunodeficiency. Therefore, due to the prevalence of this virus, it is very important to pay attention to diabetic patients these days (2). Despite the importance of this disease, there are still shortcomings and challenges in providing appropriate educational strategies on how to take medication, exercise and diet, and control the effects of blood sugar (3). So in the field of health care education one of the easy and low-cost methods of communica-tion is the use of Short Message Service (SMS), which will be very effective in controlling inter-ventions, especially in educating patients for self-care and preventing the spread of disease, and the use of this system can intervene Follow-up such as reminding and monitoring patients (4). In recent years, mobile health has emerged as a sub-branch of e-health (5). The WHO de-fines mobile health as the use of mobile com-munications (mobile phones and personal digital assistants) in the provision of health services (6). Health includes items such as encouraging pa-tients to follow treatment instructions, providing free emergency telephone help, emergency med-ical counseling, communication and staff train-ing, preventing the spread of disease, accessing patients' medical records, monitoring the possi-bility of automatic registration of vital signs and sending to the medical center and training via mobile phone and training (7). In general, with the use of Health Information Technology, in-formation can be provided to people at an un-derstandable level and in a simple, fast and ex-plicit way (8). ‬‬ Recently COVID-19 pandemic effected in all around the world (9). The new challenges of the prevention, could be affected vulnerable popula-tion Such as: the lack of information about the efficiency and effectiveness of using different types of masks in different environments, lack of necessary research and sufficient information about the risk of infection and the amount of those required for infection, lack of proper atti-tude towards vaccine injection, uncertainty about re-infection after vaccination and insuffi-cient studies on the effectiveness of different types of vaccines available in the market for dif-ferent people with different vulnerabilities and new mutation (variants) of COVID. Some of the factors that caused this disease to become a long-term pandemic are behavioral factors such as non-observance of social dis-tance according to cultural customs the inevita-bility of travel. In this pandemic time, through collective efforts, the improvement of aware-ness, attitude, and appropriate action towards preventive measures in the general population should be taken to end this pandemic as soon as possible. Notification must be done on asymp-tomatic carriers so that people are suspicious of everyone and take preventive measures. By providing prevention education through radio, television, press, and cyberspace, it is possible to have long-term awareness-raising programs for all age groups and occupations. The application of prevention requirements in recreational, edu-cational, and occupational places and govern-ment economic support should not be forgotten. In addition, monitoring these cases over time can help optimally control the epidemic. Finally, due to the increasing prevalence of coronavirus and considering the need of diabetic patients for an accessible care system and the role of modern media as a leading tool in educa-tion and training, and acculturalization in the field of health, the need for a fast education sys-tem, such as texting, is felt. It is also recom-mended that appropriate planning and policy-making be done by the relevant authorities in this field, so providing appropriate training in prevention should be considered. Improvement and treatment of diabetes can be done by raising awareness, promoting general health, better physical function and mental health, and in-creasing the overall quality of life in diabetics.

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