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RESEARCH ARTICLE
ABSTRACT
Aim To ealate the possible inences of ne technologies on qal-
it of life, disease and complications management (self-management)
in children, teenagers and ong adlts ith tpe 1 diabetes mellits
(T1DM).
Research design Narratie reie.
Materials and methods We performed a research throgh scientif-
ic/medical database: PbMed, Cinahl, The Cochrane Librar, Proqest
Central, Phch INFO and UpToDate, appling the folloing lters: std-
ies in hmans, English langage and most recent pblication (from 2007
to 2017).Onl those responding to the folloing selection criteria hae
been selected:
1. Qantitatie stdies.
2. Use of qantitatie ealation tools, monitoring qalit of life and
self-management.
3. Reference poplation of age grop less than 65 ears old.
4. Focs on seflness, satisfaction and technologies inence on qal-
it of life and disease self-management of T1DM sbjects (otcomes).
Results Among the selected articles, onl 7 ere tting the inclsion
criteria of this reie. Oerall, despite some stdies did not sho signif-
icant dierences in qalit of life, reslts shoed an increased freqen-
c in Self Monitoring Bloog Glcse (SMBG) and an improed metabolic
control ith the se of ne technologies, especiall in ong teenagers
ith T1DM.
Conclusion The dierent stdies shoed the potential adantages and
the oerall feasibilit of sing ne apps on mobile technologies, that
appear to be mostleectie in ong teenagers aected b chronic dis-
ease, sch as T1DM. These data sggest to identif ne eectie and ac-
Impatto delle tecnologie distali, Tele-
health e mHealth, sul self management
del diabete di tipo 1: una revisione nar-
rativa
Distal technologies impact, Telehealth and mHealth,
on type 1 diabetes self-management: a narrative
review
L. Gentilini
1
, A. De Remigis
2
, I. Rubbi
3
, T. Ambrosini
1
, V. Cremonini
3
1
School of Nursing, University of Bologna, Italy.
2
Ravenna Internal Medicine Department, Romagna Local Health Authority, Italy.
3
School of Nursing, Romagna Local Health Authority and University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Corresponding author: letizia.gentilini@studio.unibo.it
Citation L. Gentilini, A. De Remigis, I. Rubbi, T.
Ambrosini, V. Cremonini (2018) Impatto delle
tecnologie distali, Telehealth e mHealth, sul
self management del diabete di tipo 1: una
revisione non sistematica. JAMD Vol. 21-2
Editor Luca Monge, Associazione Medici Dia-
betologi, Italy
Received February, 2018
Accepted March, 2018
Published July, 2018
Copyright © 2018 Gentilini et al. This is an
open access article edited by AMD, published
by Idelson Gnocchi, distributed under the
terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
License, which permits unrestricted use, dis-
tribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original author and source are
credited.
Data Availability Statement All relevant
data are within the paper and its Supporting
Information fles.
Funding The Author(s) received no specifc
funding for this work.
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