Table 5.
Randomized controlled trails of self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) in patients with type 2 diabetes not using insulin – study results: Quality of life and treatment satisfaction
| Study 1st author |
Questionaire | Treatment arm |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention | Control | Intervention vs Control | ||
| Muchmore20 | Diabetes Quality-of-life inventory | NS | ||
| Schwedes9,10 | 1. Patient well-being questionnaire | |||
| General well-being (total score) | NS | |||
| Subitem ‘Depression’ | Reduction in intervention compared to control P = 0.032 | |||
| Subitem ‘Lack of well-being’ | Reduction in intervention compared to control P = 0.02 | |||
| 2. Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire (DTSQ) | 27.6 → 31.1 | 27.0 → 30.6 | ~ −0.1(P = 0.9) | |
| Farmer11–13 | 1. DTSQ | 1. 29.4 → 29.7 2. 29.7 → 30.1 |
29.3 → 30.0 | NS |
| 2. W-BQ12 | 1. 24.3 → 24.5 2. 25.2 → 24.9 |
25.1 → 25.9 | NS | |
| 3. EQ-5D | 1. 0.781 → 0.755 2. 0.807 → 0.733 |
0.799 → 0.798 | −0.029 (95% CI −0.084, 0.025) −0.072 (95% CI −0.127, −0.017) |
|
| O’Kane21 | 1. Well-being questionnaire depression (1 of the subitems, other NS) | 6.05 (p = 0.011) | ||
| 2. DTSQ | NS | |||
| 3. Diabetes attitude scale (3 of 7 subscales were included) | NS | |||