Telephone Follow-up For Diabetic Patient: Pro-Position Proposal

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Research Question:	Can nurse consultation and follow-up on telephone improve self-care and blood glucose monitoring in diabetic patients?
Claim:	Telephone follow-up is a necessary part of a nursing care plan for diabetic patients, which leads to the improvement of the quality of life, promotes consistent blood glucose monitoring, and increases patient satisfaction with treatment.
Research Proposal:	When patients are diagnosed with diabetes, they have to be ready to change their lifestyles routines, habits, and interests in order to meet their health needs. Nursing care, including communication, education, and monitoring, is an integral part of a treatment process. The idea of offering telephone follow-ups for diabetic patients is not new; still, not much information on its outcomes, benefits, and threats is available. Telephone follow-up may contribute to the improvement of the quality of life, blood glucose monitoring, and patient satisfaction. This research can be challenged by the necessity to gather many opinions and cooperate with participants for a long period. The decision to develop a mixed method study with the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data is made to overcome research obstacles and focus on all the variables.

Source Collection via a Synthesis Matrix

Source: Use an APA in-text citation	1^stPro-Point: Quality of Life	2^ndPro-Point: Blood Glucose Monitoring	3^rdPro-Point: Patient Satisfaction
Brown-Deacon et al. (2016)		Patients who follow frequent telephone follow-up with their healthcare providers have good chances to increase their adherence to blood glucose monitoring (Brown-Deacon et al., 2016).
Kaur, Kajal, Kaur, and Singh (2015)	Constant psychological counseling and follow-up via phone can result in dietary satisfaction and financial benefits that enhance the quality of life in diabetic patients (Kaur, Kajal, Kaur, and Singh, 2015).	Telemonitoring of blood glucose by healthcare providers contribute to improved self-care and patients’ finances.	A frequent follow-up mode increases the level of patient satisfaction with healthcare services offered by nurses via phone.
Samimi, Talakoub, and Ghazavi (2018)	Self-care scores in diabetic patients are increased with telephone follow-ups (Samimi, Talakoub, and Ghazavi, 2018).	Self-monitoring of blood glucose levels results in medication adherence and complications’ reduction.

References

Brown-Deacon, C., Brown, T., Creech, C., McFarland, M., Nair, A., & Whitlow, K. (2016). Can follow-up phone calls improve patients self-monitoring of blood glucose? Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(1-2), 61–67. Web.

Kaur, R., Kajal, K. S., Kaur, A., & Singh, P. (2015). Telephonic consultation and follow-up in diabetics: Impact on metabolic profile, quality of life, and patient compliance. North American Journal of Medical Sciences, 7(5), 199-207. Web.

Samimi, Z., Talakoub, S., & Ghazavi, Z. (2018). Effect of telephone follow-up by nurses on self-care in children with diabetes. Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, 23(1), 26-30. Web.