Development of diabetes telephone-linked care system for self-management support and acceptability test among type 2 diabetic patients.

Objective: Develop the diabetes telephone-linked care system for self-management support and test acceptability in terms of system uses, satisfaction and perception of easiness, helpfulness, and emotion with the system.

Material And Method: The automated telephone system with diabetes knowledge interactive voice response (IVR) subsystem was developed to provide diversified curriculum arrangement including general knowledge module (Knowledge IVR, suggestive segment module (Suggestive IVR) and 10 QA sets for assessment with tailored information feedback (QA IVR). The system could deliver 1,120 messages over five weeks among 112 intervened participants of the on-going randomized controlled trial on its impact on glycemic control.

The prevalence and risk factors of osteoporosis in Thai renal-transplant patients.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence and risk factors of osteoporosis after renal transplantation in Thai patients.

Material And Method: A single-center cross-sectional study of bone mineral density was conducted in 102 Thai renal allograft recipients. Correlations were made between the clinical parameters and the occurrences of osteoporosis.