Effect of Multimedia Messaging Service on Exercise Self-efficacy in Diabetic Patients

Objectives: To increase patients' self-efficacy for initiation of physical activity, there is a need to include physical activity into patient education in clinic settings. In this study, we aimed to assess the effectiveness of multimedia messaging service (MMS) education on exercise self-efficacy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods: We used a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design to study 98 patients with T2DM. The intervention group received MMS education targeting exercise self-efficacy for 2 months, and the control group received routine care only. Patients in both groups completed the Exercise Self-efficacy scale at 3 stages (at baseline, at 4 weeks, and at 8 weeks post-intervention). Results: We found a slight increase between baseline, first follow-up, and second follow-up in interpersonal and competing demands factors in the intervention group (p = .002, p = .001, respectively), but no improvement in the control group in any of the 3 factors over time (p > .05). Also, Cohen's d values indicated a medium effect size in all exercise self-efficacy subscales (interpersonal [0.734], competing demands [0.665], and internal feelings [0.696]). Conclusions: Health education using theoretically-based MMS targeting exercise self-efficacy was effective and affordable in promoting and changing patients' beliefs and physical activity behaviors.

IMPLEMENTASI PEMBLOKIRAN TELEPON DAN SMS PADA PERANGKAT BERBASIS ANDROID

Nowadays, the usage of handphones is growing very quickly, so we can say that nearly everyone is now using the handphone. Handphone is used for voice telecommunication and for sending short message service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS) and a lot of other smart aplications. In the other hand, as the usage of the handphones grow, there are a lot of unwanted telephone call and SMS. Therefore, we need an aplication to block the unwanted telephone call and SMS. This journal describe the implementation of a telephone and sms blocking application on the android based device.

An Adaptive Multimedia Messaging Service Framework for Mobile Telemedicine System

This paper presents an adaptive MMS framework to build a mobile telemedicine system for sending multimedia messages and also for streaming audio and video files. With the proposed framework, the capability of MMS can be increased to send and receive multimedia files of larger sizes without degrading the quality of data which is not possible with the present MMS system. This feature is particularly important for telemedicine environment as good quality of multimedia data is required to accomplish accurate medical diagnosis. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework outperforms the existing MMS system with regard to the file size that can be transmitted and also with regard to the quality of data. The modified MMS framework is adaptive in the sense that it allows transmission of different sizes and types of multimedia messages. This framework can form the basis for developing a practical mobile telemedicine system.