Cardiovascular Health and Text Messaging-Diabetes Mellitus (CHAT-DM) Study

Patients will receive regular semi-personalized text messages for 6 months. Each participants will receive 6 text messages per week, which will be sent at random times of the day (9.00am, 12noon, 4.00pm). They will receive one general messages, one hypertension message, one glucose control message, one lifestyle message, one medication adherence message and one physical activity message per week. Prior to study commencement, a bank of 270 messages have been developed based on guidelines and behavior change theory (BCT), and have underwent multidisciplinary expert review and qualitative review process.