Journal of medical Internet research
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J. Med. Internet Res. · Apr 2014
Randomized Controlled TrialA smart web aid for preventing diabetes in rural China: preliminary findings and lessons.
Increasing cases of diabetes, a general lack of routinely operational prevention, and a long history of separating disease prevention and treatment call for immediate engagement of frontier clinicians. This applies especially to village doctors who work in rural China where the majority of the nation's vast population lives. ⋯ SWAP-DM2 is helpful to village doctors, acceptable to patients, and effective in modifying immediate determinants of diabetes at least in the short term, and may provide a useful solution to the general lack of participation in diabetes prevention by frontier clinicians in rural China.