The Role of Social Networks in the Monitoring and Treatment of Adolescent Diabetes

Volume: 1 Number: 2 August 1, 2017
  • Başak Delikanlı Çorakçı
  • Muammer Bilici
  • Yasin Öztürk
  • Taner Bayraktaroğlu
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The Role of Social Networks in the Monitoring and Treatment of Adolescent Diabetes

Abstract

Social media provides one way or reciprocal and simultaneous sharing of information to follow adolescent diabetes and both supply patient treatments and reduce the risk of complications. There are a variety of Internet based applications including email, chat rooms, discussion boards where questions can be sent to experts online. Responses can be given through website links, video recordings and short message services (SMS). These computer and internet based applications are varied and include a number of options. One example could be sending data from a glucose meter to a mobile phone or via the internet to a computer; diabetes education can be shared via email, mobile phone applications and video conferences. All of these media are well understood by adolescents and can be important avenues for connecting with them. Real-time monitoring helps patients and physicians follow-up blood sugar, diet and physical activities, medicine / insulin dose, psychological adjustment and problem solving. So, these technological tools can help both manage the rate of A1C type adolescent diabetes and help the patient adapt to the illness while improving the level of knowledge gained by adolescents and their families about this disease. The use of social media by medical professionals has an important role of the management of Type 1 diabetes

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Başak Delikanlı Çorakçı This is me

Muammer Bilici This is me

Yasin Öztürk This is me

Taner Bayraktaroğlu This is me

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August 1, 2017

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August 1, 2017

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Year 2017 Volume: 1 Number: 2

APA
Delikanlı Çorakçı, B., Bilici, M., Öztürk, Y., & Bayraktaroğlu, T. (2017). The Role of Social Networks in the Monitoring and Treatment of Adolescent Diabetes. Turkish Journal of Diabetes and Obesity, 1(2), 49-53. https://izlik.org/JA32MS92UJ
AMA
1.Delikanlı Çorakçı B, Bilici M, Öztürk Y, Bayraktaroğlu T. The Role of Social Networks in the Monitoring and Treatment of Adolescent Diabetes. Turk J Diab Obes. 2017;1(2):49-53. https://izlik.org/JA32MS92UJ
Chicago
Delikanlı Çorakçı, Başak, Muammer Bilici, Yasin Öztürk, and Taner Bayraktaroğlu. 2017. “The Role of Social Networks in the Monitoring and Treatment of Adolescent Diabetes”. Turkish Journal of Diabetes and Obesity 1 (2): 49-53. https://izlik.org/JA32MS92UJ.
EndNote
Delikanlı Çorakçı B, Bilici M, Öztürk Y, Bayraktaroğlu T (August 1, 2017) The Role of Social Networks in the Monitoring and Treatment of Adolescent Diabetes. Turkish Journal of Diabetes and Obesity 1 2 49–53.
IEEE
[1]B. Delikanlı Çorakçı, M. Bilici, Y. Öztürk, and T. Bayraktaroğlu, “The Role of Social Networks in the Monitoring and Treatment of Adolescent Diabetes”, Turk J Diab Obes, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 49–53, Aug. 2017, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA32MS92UJ
ISNAD
Delikanlı Çorakçı, Başak - Bilici, Muammer - Öztürk, Yasin - Bayraktaroğlu, Taner. “The Role of Social Networks in the Monitoring and Treatment of Adolescent Diabetes”. Turkish Journal of Diabetes and Obesity 1/2 (August 1, 2017): 49-53. https://izlik.org/JA32MS92UJ.
JAMA
1.Delikanlı Çorakçı B, Bilici M, Öztürk Y, Bayraktaroğlu T. The Role of Social Networks in the Monitoring and Treatment of Adolescent Diabetes. Turk J Diab Obes. 2017;1:49–53.
MLA
Delikanlı Çorakçı, Başak, et al. “The Role of Social Networks in the Monitoring and Treatment of Adolescent Diabetes”. Turkish Journal of Diabetes and Obesity, vol. 1, no. 2, Aug. 2017, pp. 49-53, https://izlik.org/JA32MS92UJ.
Vancouver
1.Başak Delikanlı Çorakçı, Muammer Bilici, Yasin Öztürk, Taner Bayraktaroğlu. The Role of Social Networks in the Monitoring and Treatment of Adolescent Diabetes. Turk J Diab Obes [Internet]. 2017 Aug. 1;1(2):49-53. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA32MS92UJ

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