TY - JOUR AU - Barnard, Katharine D. AU - Young, Amanda J. AU - Waugh, Norman R. PY - 2010 DA - 2010/11/22 TI - Self monitoring of blood glucose - a survey of diabetes UK members with type 2 diabetes who use SMBG JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 318 VL - 3 IS - 1 AB - Aim - to survey members of Diabetes UK who had Type 2 diabetes and who used self monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG), to elicit their views on its usefulness in the management of their diabetes, and how they used the results. A questionnaire was developed for the Diabetes UK website. The questionnaire was posted on the Diabetes UK website until over 500 people had responded. Questions asked users to specify the benefits gained from SMBG, and how these benefits were achieved. We carried out both quantitative analysis and a thematic analysis for the open ended free-text questions. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-3-318 DO - 10.1186/1756-0500-3-318 ID - Barnard2010 ER -