In these patients , the improvement in glycaemic control was more evident during the real-time continuous glucose monitoring period ( 7.76 % 0.4 vs 8.54 % 0.4 , p < 0.05 ) than during the self-monitoring of blood glucose period ( 8.42 % 0.4 vs 8.56 % 0.5 , p = 0.2 ) .