Modular ICT-based patient empowerment framework for self-management of diabetes: Design perspectives and validation results

Abstract

It is evident that a patient empowerment approach based on self-management ICT tools is useful and accepted by patients and physicians. Further, there are clear indications that ICT frameworks such as the one presented in this paper support patients in behavioral changes and in better disease management. Finally, it was realized that self-management solutions should be built around the objective not only to educate and guide patients in disease self-management, but also to assist them in exploring the decision space and to provide insight and explanations about the impact of their own values on the decision.

Context-Aware Systems for Chronic Disease Patients: Scoping Review (Preprint)

“…One study was conducted in Canada [12], 2 were in the US [13,14], and 2 in Europe [15,16]. Most articles were published after 2010, except one [17].…”

“…Most articles were published after 2010, except one [17]. The health domains covered in the studies included asthma [13], cardiovascular disease [16], kidney disease [12], Parkinson's disease [17], diabetes [15], and mental health [14]. All included studies used quasi-experimental study designs to pilot test different context-aware systems.…”

“…Demographic information on participants was often missing and inconsistently reported. Specifically, age data was reported by three studies [12,14,17] and four studies reported sex data [12,14,15,17].…”

“…Two studies focused on indoor settings [13,17] and 4 studies involved both indoor and outdoor settings [12,[14][15][16].…”

“…Context was captured using sensors [12][13][14]16,17] and self-reports [12][13][14][15]. One particular study used ecological momentary assessment to capture self-reported data on social context, activity, and internal states (i.e.…”