title: Intensive telehealth management of five at-risk adolescents with diabetes.
abstract: Five adolescents with diabetes participated in an intensive outpatient treatment programme designed to improve adherence to their regimen and improve metabolic control. Families reported blood sugar levels, injections and food intake daily by telephone. After four weeks they were offered a video-phone. Nine subjects were recruited but four of them dropped out. Of the remaining five, one subject used a video-phone and one subject reported blood sugar results by email. Most of the children improved their metabolic control and all five subjects showed reduced HbA(1c) levels during the three months of the study. The use of telehealth facilitated the treatment of adolescents with poor glycaemic control.
authors.affiliation: Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida Health Sciences Center, Gainesville 32610, USA.
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gelfand
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Geffken
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Halsey-Lyda
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Muir
authors.forename: Toree
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Malasanos
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D002648:Child; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000628:therapy*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019114:Remote Consultation; D012648:Self Care
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose