Category: Diabetes

Research on mobile medical apps for diabetes mellitus (DM) patients Intent to analyze commercially available apps available for DM patients Apps have outcomes published in the literature, received FDA or CE Mark approval Apps intend to support blood glucose (BG) and DM self-management 14 mobile medical apps identified: smartphone-based and glucose meter-based apps To study…

Table of Contents Researchers Burns and Grove Collection of Information about Diabetes Carroll and Marrero’s Assumptions Methodology Conclusion References Researchers Burns and Grove Burns and Grove (2009) define a critical appraisal of research as a “systematic, unbiased, careful examination of all aspects of a study to come up with the merits, limitations, meaning, and significance…

Table of Contents Introduction Hypothesis Control group Treatment group Scientific Experimental Design Problems and biases Conclusion Introduction Scientists sought to experiment that drinking coffee may have a positive implication to blood sugar levels that may lead to diabetes. This procedure had to be carefully conducted to articulate positive results that could be verified through standard…

Introduction At present, a large number of people are experiencing health complications due to a sedentary lifestyle, lack of physical activities, poor nutritional habits, and substance use disorders (SUD). Among the potential diseases, diabetes mellitus is one of the most harmful and impactful developments that negatively affect the quality of life and might lead to…

Table of Contents Purpose Research Question Research Design Population Sample Data Collection Data Analysis Limitations Conclusion Reference List Purpose The article by George and Thomas (2010) is aimed at reporting the issues related to diabetes self-management that were identified in a previous study. Because of the increase in the instances of diabetes development and the…

Diabetes is one of the most common diseases impacting world population. Apart from being a serious illness and having many adverse outcomes, it may present further danger to the patients’ health condition by various complications. Neuropathy and retinopathy are dangerous complications of Type 2 Diabetes, and the providers need to choose alternative agents for diabetes…

Table of Contents Scenario mHealth Application Teaching Evaluation References Scenario Mrs. Sanders is a 45-year-old female recently diagnosed with type-2 diabetes. She has a family history of diabetes and worries that she will not be able to manage the disease. Mrs. Sanders has a college degree and has proficiency using technological devices due to her…

According to Glover and Mitchell, for an individual to effectively communicate Biostatistics data, he had to first understand the public to which he wanted to convey the message. It was almost impracticable to alter the pre-existing values of the public except through addressing the matters unambiguously. Coming up with information that bridged the gap between…

Introduction The rapid development of new technologies in recent decades offers countless avenues for health promotion and disease prevention. Web-based and smart mobile applications and Web 2.0 are increasingly used by healthcare professionals for delivering tailored health messages focusing on prevention activities in areas such as nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle (Bert, Giacometti, Gualano, & Siliquini,…

Mr. X’s situation can be analyzed through the lens of social determinants. The first determinant is health care access and quality, which means the utilization of individual health services in a timely manner to get optimum health results (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2021). For Mr. X, this determinant is unfavorable since the…