The study investigates T2DM patients who have not had surgery or cardiac event in the last 3 months, between the ages of 40 and 64 years, with T2DM diagnosis between the last 1 and 10 years and oral antidiabetic therapy for at least 1 The study design is a single-blinded randomized, controlled study, and was conducted in the Diabetes Polyclinic of the Istanbul University Medical Faculty Hospital.~Patients randomly assigned to the intervention group, in addition to traditional treatment received three to four informative SMS messages per week during the 6-month period, while the control group was followed in accordance with the traditional treatment schedule.
The objective of our study was to assess awareness-raising of medication adherence (MA), physical activity (PA), fasting blood glucose (FBG), and glycated hemoglobin A (HbA1c) values by providing information on diabetes via short message (SMS) technology.